Interview patrick phillips poetry

Patrick Phillips is the author of three collections of poetry and a work of nonfiction. His 2004 collection, Chattahoochee, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and his 2015 collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was a finalist for the National Book Award.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Phillips earned his PhD in English Renaissance Literature from NYU, and now directs the creative writing department at Stanford University. He has received awards including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, a Fulbright fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, and the Lyric Poetry Award of the Poetry Society of America.

His poem “Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs” appeared in the 2021 edition of the Best American Poetry.

Lily Cowles: You seem to be drawn to the elegy as a poetic form — your third collection of poetry, “Elegy for a Broken Machine” is composed of them, and you’ve also written others, such as “Elegy with Tab