Reposted by Carl PhillipsClassical Association of New England @caneweb.org · 27/03/2026The UMass Amherst Department of Classics invites CANE members to join in remotely for a lecture by the renowned poet, Carl Phillips. As our 2026 David Grose Memorial Lecturer, Professor Phillips will share his work and reflections on a fascinating career. caneweb.org/invitation-t... 042
Reposted by Carl PhillipsAmorak Huey @amorak.bsky.social · 22/03/2026“Each poem is a fumbling forward, toward a glimpse of clarity through a thicket of quandary, before everything blurs again back to the everyday business of living a life that mostly doesn't include a lot of self-reflection; we might see more than we should, or wanted to.” — Carl Phillips 0125
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 17/03/202634 years ago my first book came out and changed my life — today is PUB DAY for the reissue, with a new afterword! Thank you, little book, and thank you @fsgbooks.bsky.social 25513
Reposted by Carl PhillipsThe Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Happy pub day to @cphillipspoet.bsky.social! His debut collection, IN THE BLOOD, has been reissued by @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Read about how his first book outed him—and saved his life. yalereview.org/article/carl...yalereview.orgCarl Phillips: “My First Book Outed Me”While writing my debut collection of poems, I discovered both my queerness and my calling as a poet. 0105
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 01/03/2026The new and selected from @erinwriter.bsky.social is guaranteed 🔥 🔥 🔥! Out this fall! 0101
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026Thanks so much — people used to get so rattled when I’d get to that part at a reading… 🫢 1244
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I hope it makes the day warmer and less melancholy! Thanks so much for reading! 081
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Thx so much @scryptkeeper.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for these words and for featuring my poem! Maybe one day I’ll say how I came up with that title… 070
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Thx to @phillipcrymble.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social for featuring some of my poems! Here’s one! 2203
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Omg thank you for publishing the poems — I’m eager to see the new issue! 1222
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Thx so much to Maggie Millner and everyone at @yalereview.bsky.social ! 0123
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Well that’s a very kind thing to say — thank you! 2172
Reposted by Carl PhillipsAGNI @agnimagazine.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Here, where his body lay, gather up all the broken-stemmed flowers; photograph the water, that in the wind repeatedly makes for shore and misses— ~from "The Glade" by Carl Phillips AGNI 33buff.lyThe GladeHere, complete with half-swallowed cry of small game rising, stirring the light, is that ease with which a legend goes languorously down on itself, slow-dying; this is the air left behind, thick with… 1143
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 07/01/2026My only syllabic poem! Written when I had my students write a syllabic poem for a prosody class! (And then I dismantled it, years later, and saved only one line, which appears in a different poem…) #revision 1123
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026“ — Why not move like light, reflected, across the snow?” 2364
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Thank you! From my very first book - In the Blood - (being reissued this March)! 0133
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Thank you! And a poem or two daily seems a perfect way to read a book of poetry! Happy new year… 1100
Reposted by Carl PhillipsLara Maynard 🫐 @laralou.bsky.social · 28/12/2025“Even the air will have to pretend.” - Prince of Fire/Prince by Jane Mead www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoem #SundaySentence 0142
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 28/12/2025Finding myself included in the Heated Rivalry mix, thx to syntax, wasn’t anywhere on my end-of-2025 bingo card, but I’m absolutely here for it… 0166
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 25/12/2025A space, a moment in which we can safely trust — that may be the most useful and valuable gift we can give one another. 0242
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 22/12/2025Wow! This calligraphy gives the poem a whole different life…! Thank you! 070
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 21/12/2025A poem that deepens with each reading, and each time haunts me differently… 1123
Reposted by Carl PhillipsAdrian Dallas Frandle (aka Sartrelo Ponti) @adrianf.bsky.social · 15/12/2025My new poetry column is up, with a round-up of winter snow poems to consider - featuring poems by Louise Glück, Carl Phillips, @toddedillard.bsky.social, Alex Dimitrov, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo & other favorites. stratfordcrier.com/a-kind-of-sn...media.tenor.coma little girl is shoveling snow with a shovel and a bag .Alt: a little child is shoveling snow with a shovel and falls over, only to be righted by their parent. 13413
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025Excellent! And thanks so much for including my poem in this roundup! 291
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 13/12/2025Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises… 2263
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Still feeling just as lost…And to think I once thought being lost was just a phase…ha! 1143
Reposted by Carl PhillipsVikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 01/12/2025For #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social, I'm sharing this beauty 'Like So' from SCATTERED SNOWS, TO THE NORTH by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social. An exquisite collection 🤍 #poetrycommunity 1195
Reposted by Carl PhillipsVikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This stunning poem which gives voice to the human spectrum through elements of the natural world 🤍 'Sunlight In Fog' from SCATTERED WINDS, TO THE NORTH by Carl Phillips. @fsgbooks.bsky.social An exquisite collection which I've been immersed in lately. #poetrycommunity #poetrycollections 14110
Reposted by Carl PhillipsRobert Pinsky @rpinsky.bsky.social · 16/11/2025I am proud of this book review in today;s NY Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...nytimes.comThis 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius 1184
Reposted by Carl PhillipsThe Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 30/10/2025“Ellen taught me to take myself seriously and especially to take poetry seriously, not just the making of it, but how to think and speak about it.” @cphillipspoet.bsky.social remembers Ellen Bryant Voigt. yalereview.org/article/trib...yalereview.orgRemembering Ellen Bryant VoigtCatherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt. 0124
Reposted by Carl PhillipsThe Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Ellen Bryant Voigt—poet and founder of the first low-residency MFA program—transformed American poetry and the way it’s taught. Catherine Barnett, @victoriachang.bsky.social, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, and @meghanor.bsky.social pay tribute to a singular mentor. yalereview.org/article/trib...yalereview.orgRemembering Ellen Bryant VoigtCatherine Barnett, Victoria Chang, Meghan O’Rourke, and Carl Phillips remember the poet Ellen Bryant Voigt. 1158
Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social · 28/10/2025A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨 26318
Reposted by Carl Phillips~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 23/10/2025In a Field, at Sunset ~ Carl Phillips When he asked if I still loved him, I didn't answer. but of course, I loved him~ 0317
Reposted by Carl PhillipsTom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social 16816
Reposted by Carl PhillipsTerry L. Kennedy @terrylkennedy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025The orchard was on fire, but that didn’t stop him from slowly walking straight into it, shirtless, you can see where the flames have foliaged—here, especially—his chest . . . from "Dirt Being Dirt" by Carl Phillips buff.ly/oWhB4p1 083
