Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B. Williams
Born 1986 (age 31–32)
Chicago, Illinois
Occupation Poet, spoken-word performer
Nationality American
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Kate Tufts Discovery Award, Whiting Award for Poetry

Phillip B. Williams (born 1986) is an American poet. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels, Burn, and Thief in the Interior.

Life

He graduated from Washington University, with an MFA. He teaches at Bennington College.[1] Phillip B. Williams is a Poetry Fellow at the 2018 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place.

His poetry has been included in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review Online, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, and Blackbird. Williams is a Cave Canem Foundation graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. He is a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, completing a MFA in creative writing.[2] His work has been praised for its "devout and excruciating attention to the line [whose] indispensible [sic] music fuses his implacable understanding of words with their own shadows."[3]

Awards

Thief in the Interior was the winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards.[4] In 2017 Williams was awarded a Whiting Award for Poetry.[5][6]

Works

  • Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011), ISBN 9780983761105, OCLC 808013493
  • Burn (YesYes Books, 2013),
  • Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016). ISBN 9781938584176, OCLC 903436605
Anthologies
  • Jericho Brown (ed) Prime : poetry & conversation, Alexander, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. ISBN 9781937420734, OCLC 880974097

References

  1. ↑ "Phillip B. Williams". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2017-10-19. Retrieved 2017-10-19.
  2. ↑ "Phillip B. Williams". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Griffiths, Rachel Eliza (November 3, 2015). "Poet's Sampler: Phillip B. Williams". The Boston Review (November 03, 2015).
  4. ↑ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced". LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
  5. ↑ Ciulac, Andreea (March 23, 2017). "Chicago Tribune" (March 23, 2017). Tronc. Retrieved 24 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Phillip B. Williams Whiting Award Profile". Whiting.org. Whiting Foundation. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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