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Cut & Paste — Poet Carl Phillips
Cut and Paste
English - June 05, 2020 17:29 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsPerforming Arts Arts arts culture stlouis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Carl Phillips was teaching Latin to high school students when a poet changed his life.
Phillips had long been an avid reader and wrote poems casually, but he never conceived of poetry as a career path. The poet Martin Espada visited the school where he worked and led a workshop for faculty. He saw what Phillips wrote in an exercise and suggested he apply for a state grant.
He got the grant.
Then he won a poetry contest that led to publication of his first collection, “In The Blood,” in 1992.
The next year he secured a position on the faculty at Washington University, where he remains a professor of English and leads a workshop in the graduate creative writing program.
Many awards and honors later, Phillips published his 15th poetry collection in March this year.