Hill Center Poetry Series: The Life of a Poet - A Conversation with Carl Phillips

Описание: Join us for the Hill Center Poetry Series: The Life of a Poet, a reading and conversation with Poet Carl Phillips, moderated by The Washington Post book critic and editor Ron Charles. Co-sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Washington Post. Made possible through the support of National Capital Bank.

Phillips' first collection of poems, In the Blood, won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and his second book, Cortège, was nominated for a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. His Pastoral won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. Phillips' work has been published in the Yale Review, Atlantic Monthly, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. He was named a Witter Bynner Fellow in 1998 and he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets in 2006, given in memory of James Merrill. Phillips is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

In 2002, Phillips received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for The Tether. He won the Thom Gunn Award in 2005 for The Rest of Love. His collection of poetry, Double Shadow, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for poetry. Double Shadow won the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize Poetry category.

Ron Charles is the editor of The Washington Post's book section and a weekly fiction critic. For several years, he also edited The Post's "Poet's Choice" column in Book World. His reviews have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best criticism and 1st place for Arts & Entertainment Commentary from the Society for Features Journalism. Washingtonian Magazine named him as one of the 40 people who shaped DC in 2010.