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Thu, Sep 4, 2025 5:30pm–7:00pm

Zell Visiting Writers Series: Poet Carl Phillips Reading and Q&A

A book cover reads "Scattered Snows, the the north".
Scattered Snows, To The North by Carl Phillips
Thu, Sep 4, 2025
5:30pm–7:00pm
Helmut Stern Auditorium

Join us in welcoming poet Carl Phillips for a reading and Q+A as part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series, presented by the Helen Zell Writer’s Program in partnership with UMMA, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature.

Phillips is the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book “Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022). His most recent book is “Scattered Snows, to the North” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024).

Zell Visiting Writers Series readings and Q&As are free and open to the public and will be offered both virtually (via Zoom) and in person (in UMMA’s Stern Auditorium). Seats are offered on a first come, first served basis; please arrive early to secure a spot.For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email kimjulie@umich.edu — we are eager to help ensure this event is inclusive to you.

SUPPORT

The Zell Visiting Writers Series is a reading series presented by the Helen Zell Writers’ Program in partnership with the University of Michigan Museum of Art, with support from the Department of English Language & Literature, the Office of the Vice President for Research, and Janey Lack.

ZVWS events are free and open to the public. For additional information, questions, or accommodations needs, please contact Program Coordinator Michaela Kotziers at kotziers@umich.edu.