Agreed, Kathy! A mesmerizing poem!

“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...

I love this

Ellen 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...

Thank you so much!

A new poem in the new issue of Agni @agnimagazine.bsky.social 🫨

In a Field, at Sunset ~ Carl Phillips When he asked if I still loved him, I didn't answer. but of course, I loved him~

Carl Phillips 💙

Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

The 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

Charles Simic

September and Friday and nightfall.

Today’s poem is selected by Carl Phillips as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. It is Linda Gregg's birthday today, September 9th. "Alma to Her Sister" appeared in Too Bright to See by Linda Gregg, published by Graywolf Press, 1981.

I look for omens everywhere, because they are everywhere to be found. They come to me like strays, like the damaged, something that could know better, and should, therefore-but does not: a form of faith, you've said. - Carl Philips #Poetry #LiteratureSky 💙📚👀

"We're individual in our tastes, ambitions, disappointments. We carry inside us our own wildernesses, as particular in their obsessions as they are various in their surprises. These differences give context to the points of likeness between us." - Carl Phillips on community, in My Trade is Mystery

Thx, I forgot to post this myself! From this month’s @austbookreview.bsky.social

I tend to be pretty quiet here, but here’s a new profile pic…

Well, thank you very much!

Beautiful indeed.

Aha! I believe I know the Carl and Doug it’s dedicated to! I was very sorry to have to part with so many beloved books when I retired, but I reminded myself that the passalong world is how new readers find us. Cheers! And here’s to seeing you again soon!

I’m glad you decided to give it another try! Thank you!

Carl Phillips

Thank you, Phillip!

Possibly my favorite summation of Pride

This poem by Carl Phillips. Like whoa.

“If we can make, from tenderness, a revolution—“ —Carl Phillips in THEN THE WAR 💙

Yep this is an astonishing poem!

“You: the dark that nothing, not even the light, displaces.” —Carl Phillips from “Then the War”

Sign up now for an online poetry short course! 🖊️ The four-week course is an opportunity to be tutored by PN Review editors John McAuliffe and Michael Schmidt. More information can be found on the Carcanet website: www.carcanet.co.uk/

I think I write not to understand struggle and to somehow by understanding it come to some sort of peace with it, but to understand just enough to know how much more there is, still, to be understood; not an end, then, to struggling, but a stepping more deeply into it. — @cphillipspoet.bsky.social

The Shrine of St. Joseph, Guardian and Redeemer | Megan Duffy | Frozen Sea - Issue Eight

'You can treat the past like a piece of fine glass to see yourself reflected in; or to see through.' A luminous book, delicate and thoughtful, with the quiet authority of experience. Carl Phillips, @cphillipspoet.bsky.social 'Scattered Snows, to the North', @carcanet.bsky.social .

A big congratulations to @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, who has been shortlisted for the 2025 Griffin Poetry Prize with the American edition of Scattered Snows, to the North! Well done Carl, and all the other shortlisted poets and publishers! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/carl-phillip...

This collection by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social is rife with re-imagining of the American pastoral (& meanwhile turning the American lyric on its head). Thrilled to be a loyal follower of this man's bibliography, and to see what he does next. #booksky

We Love in the Only Ways We Can by Carl Phillips "write down something that doesn't have to matter, that still matters, to you." 🧵🔖 93

In "Scattered Snows, to the North," Carl Phillips explores the vulnerabilities of memory. Through fragmented images of winter and evocations of heartbreak, readers catch glimpses of windows into the speaker's past. But can we trust what we see, and what we remember?

😔 Remembering what Poetry Twitter used to be…A Kind of Meadow* *Hats off to Carl Phillips, best poetry tweeter there ever was.

Rubicon by @cphillipspoet.bsky.social 💫💫

"Blue-winged Warbler" by Carl Phillips from our Summer 2021 issue. https://oxfordamerican.org/magazine/issue-113-summer-2021/blue-winged-warbler Photo by Bernard Hermant via Unsplash

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Just adding a little Emily at the beach to the timeline, in case anyone needs that…

Crickets, bamboo, a little light…

I can’t wait to hear this! (Was tied up during the airing…)

I love and believe this. And it also can make me doubt where I end a poem. Have I said enough? What is enough? How much can be learned from what’s left unsaid?

@scryptkeeper.bsky.social This is so cool! Thank you for thinking about my poem! I’m honored and giddy!

What keeps me sane as the world unravels? The poetry of @cphillipspoet.bsky.social, @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social, @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social, so many others. Contra Auden, poetry makes many things happen, and does more than survive, especially in this time.

Those are four one-line stanzas. Though I’m trying to get away with a couplet effect, if that makes sense…

Thank you, and welcome to my strange little world…

"Apparently misinformed about the rumored stuff of dreams: everywhere I inquired, I was told look for blue." - Carl Phillips

As part of #BlackHistoryMonth, we’re celebrating Carl Phillips, whose poems appeared in IHLR 11.2. "I can talk about longing, sure, or I can change // the subject." Check out his Pulitzer-winning Then the War: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374603762/thenthewar/