Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022, Carcanet 2022). His honors include the 2023 Pulitzer Prize, 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).
He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
My Trade is a Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing
The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006