Episode 105: Carl Phillips

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Rachel speaks to poet and teacher Carl Phillips about reading, writing, falling in love, pandemic hobbies, his plans for retirement, spending his life turning over and over the same questions in his writing, and metaphors for the joys of reading and writing. Along the way, Carl reads poems from his new book Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 and from previous collections.

Books and Selected Other Work by Carl Phillips

POETRY

• Then The War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022)

• Pale Colors in a Tall Field (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)

• Star Map With Action Figures (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019)

• Wild Is the Wind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018)

• Reconnaissance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015)

• The Art of Daring (Graywolf Press, 2014)

• Silverchest (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013)

• Double Shadow (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)

• Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)

• Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986–2006 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007)

• Riding Westward (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

• The Rest of Love (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)

• Rock Harbor (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)

• The Tether (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001)

• Pastoral (Graywolf Press, 2000)

• From the Devotions (Graywolf Press, 1998)

• Cortège (Graywolf Press, 1995)

• In the Blood (Northeastern University Press, 1992)

NONFICTION

• My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022)

• Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry (Graywolf Press, 2004)

TRANSLATION

• Sophocles’s Philoctetes (Oxford University Press, 2003)

SELECTED OTHER WORK

• Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, ed. Carl Phillips (Yale University Press, 2019)

• “What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us,” T Magazine (2015)

• Cooking With Carl on Instagram

Also Referenced

• Brooklyn Book Festival

• Hafizah Jeter

• R. Erika Doyle

• Angelos Michalopoulos

• Washington University at St. Louis

• T Magazine

• Omnidawn Publishing

• Layli Longsoldier

• Victoria Chang

• Association of Writers and Writing Programs

• Roe v. Wade

• Julia Child

• Whitney Houston

• Breadloaf Writers Conference

• The New York Times

• Michael Palmer

• Ernest Hemingway

• Carcanet Books

• Emergence Magazine

• Robert Lowell, Life Studies

• Ron Charles and Carl Phillips 

• Firing Line with William F Buckley Allen Ginsberg 

• Rachel Hadas

• Prageeta Sharma, Grief Sequence

• George Eliot, Middlemarch

• John Updike

• J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye and Nine Stories

• Carly Simon

• The Go-Gos

• Hadrian

• Emily Dickinson

• Yale Younger Prize

• Eduardo C. Corral

• Muriel Rukeyser

• Jorie Graham

• Brigit Pegeen Kelly

• Linda Gregg, Too Bright To See

• Frank O’Hara

• Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Robert Hayden

• David Wojahn

• Thom Gunn

• Poetry Magazine

• William Shakespeare, Sonnet 73

Many thanks to Rickey Laurentiis, Erin Belieu, Dawn Lundy Martin, Justin Phillip Reed and the Association of Writing Programs Conference for granting me permission to record and share “Radiance Versus Ordinary Light: A Tribute to Carl Phillips,” March 28, 2019.

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