Poetry Reading with Carl Phillips

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Carl Phillips reads from his latest poetry collection, Scattered Snows, to the North (2024). Phillips will also be in conversation with Jennifer Elise Foerster, a visiting professor at the Michener Center for Writers. A reception, book sales, and signing will follow the reading. This event is co-sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and Plan II Glickman Lectureship.

About Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently Scattered Snows, to the North (2024) and Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007–2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. His other honors include the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award, the PEN/USA Award for Poetry, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. Phillips has also written three prose books, most recently My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing (2022), and he has translated the Philoctetes of Sophocles (2004).

Photo by Reston Allen.

Please have your reservation confirmation ready upon entering. A reservation does not guarantee a seat. Line forms upon arrival of the first patron, and doors open 30 minutes in advance. Doors to our theater will open approximately 30 minutes before the event begins. No food or beverages are allowed inside our theater or gallery space.

Host or Publisher Harry Ransom Center