Zell Visiting Writers Series: Poet Carl Phillips Reading and Q&A
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.
More About Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips’s latest book of poems is Scattered Snows, to the North (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2024). His Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Other honors include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, and awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Library of Congress. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (Yale University Press, 2022). He lives on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.
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.