Episode Description
In Three Poems, where we get to know today’s poets through reading a couple of their own poems, as well as the works of others who have had an influence on them in some way. Without further delay, today’s poet is Pulitzer Prize winner Carl Phillips
Poem 1:
“Sunlight and Fog” by Carl Phillips from Scattered Snows, to the North, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, read here by David J. Bauman.
Poem 2:
“And If I Fall” from Then the War, and Selected Poems, 2007 - 2020, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (2023), written and read by Carl Phillips.
Poem 3:
“Chinese Bowls” by Stefanie Marlis, from her book Slow Joy, published by University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
Carl Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets.
Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022); and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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