Phillip B. Williams

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Phillip B. Williams
Williams at Los Angeles Public Library
Williams at Los Angeles Public Library
Born1986 (age 34–35)
Chicago, Illinois
OccupationPoet, spoken-word performer
NationalityAmerican
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsKate Tufts Discovery Award, Whiting Award for Poetry

Phillip B. Williams (born 1986) is an American poet. Born in Chicago, he is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels and Burn as well as the full length poetry collections Thief in the Interior and MUTINY.

Career[]

He graduated with an MFA from Washington University where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate fellow.[1] He teaches at Bennington College.[2] Williams was a Poetry Fellow at the 2018 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place. His poetry has been featured in Callaloo, The Kenyon Review Online, The Southern Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, West Branch, and Blackbird. Williams is a Cave Canem Foundation graduate as well as co-editor in chief, with KMA Sullivan, of the online journal Vinyl.[3]

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."[4]

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.[5] In 2017 Williams was awarded a Whiting Award for Poetry.[6][7]

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
  • MUTINY: Poems (Penguin, 2021).
Anthologies
  • Jericho Brown (ed) Prime : poetry & conversation, Alexander, AR: Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014. ISBN 9781937420734, OCLC 880974097

References[]

  1. ^ "Phillip B. Williams". PoetryFoundation.org. The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved October 23, 2020.
  2. ^ "Phillip B. Williams". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. October 19, 2017. Retrieved October 19, 2017.CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ "Phillip B. Williams". Bennington.edu. Bennington College. Retrieved October 19, 2020.
  4. ^ Griffiths, Rachel Eliza (November 3, 2015). "Poet's Sampler: Phillip B. Williams". The Boston Review (November 3, 2015).
  5. ^ "29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" Archived June 10, 2018, at the Wayback Machine. LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017.
  6. ^ Ciulac, Andreea (March 23, 2017). "Chicago Tribune" (March 23, 2017). Tronc. Retrieved April 24, 2017.
  7. ^ "Phillip B. Williams Whiting Award Profile". Whiting.org. Whiting Foundation. Retrieved January 24, 2018.
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