Where Do Poems Come From? A Talk and Reading by Robert Phillips, April 15th, 2004
On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Hillyer Room on the sixth floor of E.S. Bird Library, Robert Phillips will give a talk and a reading from his forthcoming collection of poems, Circumstances Beyond Our Control (Johns Hopkins University Press).
Phillips (M.A., Syracuse University, 1962) is Rebecca and John Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston, where he also served as director of the graduate creative writing program from 1991 to 1996. A prize-winning poet, fiction writer, and critic, Phillips is the author of more than 30 books, including poetry collections Spinach Days and Breakdown Lane, and short-story collections News About People You Know, Public Landing Revisited, and Land of Lost Content. Notable among his critical works are editions of the letters of William Goyen and Delmore Schwartz.
Phillips’s honors include a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, an Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, membership in the Texas Institute of Letters, and a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal for distinguished alumni achievement.
This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Note: Immediately following Phillips’s talk and reception, there will be a special program, beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Schine Student Center’s Goldstein Auditorium, to honor Chancellor Kenneth A. Shaw and Mary Ann Shaw for their 13 years of dedicated service to the University. All are welcome.
CONTACT
Mary Beth Hinton
Syracuse University Library
315-443-2130
mbhinton@syr.edu
