1. Carl Phillips was born on 23 July 1959 and is an American writer and poet.
16 Facts About Carl Phillips
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Carl Phillips is a professor of English at Washington University in St Louis.
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Carl Phillips was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year until finally settling in his high-school years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Carl Phillips's Pastoral won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Poetry.
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Carl Phillips' work has been published in The Yale Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker and The Paris Review.
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Carl Phillips was named a Witter Bynner Fellowship in 1998 and in 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets, given in memory of James Merrill.
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In 2002, Carl Phillips received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, for The Tether.
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Carl Phillips won the Thom Gunn Award in 2005 for The Rest of Love.
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In 2015, Carl Phillips released his 13th collection of poems, Reconnaissance, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Best Poetry and appeared on the Top Books list from Canada's The Globe and Mail.
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Carl Phillips was a featured poet in the "Picture and a Poem" series for T: The New York Times Style Magazine in December 2015.
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Carl Phillips is a four-time finalist for the National Book Award.
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Carl Phillips received the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Award and the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize.
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Carl Phillips was the named a winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.
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Carl Phillips was a judge for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize.
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Carl Phillips's collection of poetry, Double Shadow, was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.
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Carl Phillips was a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2008 to 2012.