Carl Phillips Poetry Reading
Date/Time
Location
Sawyer Library (55 Sawyer Library Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267, Williamstown MA)
We look forward to welcoming Carl Phillips to read from his poems at Williams College! Please join us on October 2nd at 7pm in the Sawyer Library Reading Room (on the main floor of the library) for what promises to be a wonderful evening.
Phillips is the author of seventeen books of poems, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written three books of essays, 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). His many 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.
Sponsored by the Williams College Department of English.