Rowan ricardo phillips biography of william
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a middle-aged poet with young-poet awards behind him..
Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a poet, critic, and translator.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American poet (born 1974)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University,[1] the poetry editor of The New Republic,[2] and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry.[3] He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[4]
He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012),[5]Heaven (2015),[6] and Living Weapon (2020),[7] the non-fiction books When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness[8] and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey,[9] and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth.[10]
Life
Phillips was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.
His parents are from Antigua and Barbud