Philip Memmer

Poet

Clinton, NY
New York US

Author's Bio

Philip Memmer is the author of five books of poems, most recently Pantheon (Lost Horse Press 2019). His previous collections include The Storehouses of the Snow (Lost Horse Press 2012) and Lucifer: A Hagiography (Lost Horse Press 2009), winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in such journals as Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry London, in many anthologies, and in the Library of Congress’s “Poetry 180” project. He is Executive Director of the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse, where he founded the Downtown Writers Center in 2001. He is also Executive Editor of Stone Canoe, and Associate Editor for Tiger Bark Press.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012)
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Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review (University of Arkansas Press, 2009)
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I Go to the Ruined Place: Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (Lost Horse Press, 2009)
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180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (Random House, 2005)
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Proposing from the Brooklyn Bridge (Grayson Books, 2003)
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Seven Hundred Kisses (Harper Collins, 1997)
Books:
Pantheon (Lost Horse Press, 2019)
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The Storehouses of the Snow: Psalms, Parables and Dreams (Lost Horse Press, 2012)
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Lucifer: A Hagiography (Lost Horse Press, 2009)
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Threat of Pleasure (Word Press, 2008)
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Sweetheart, Baby, Darling (Word Press, 2004)
Journals:
5 A.M.
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Brooklyn Review
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Calapooya Collage
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Chatauqua Literary Journal
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Chattahoochee Review
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Circumference
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Clackamas Literary Review
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Connecticut Review
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Epoch
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Free Lunch
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Northeast Corridor
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Poems & Plays
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Poet & Critic
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Poetry Daily
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Poetry London
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Puerto del Sol
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Sundog
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Underwood Review
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Verse Daily
Prizes won: 

2017 and 2011 Hawthornden Fellow; 2008 Idaho Prize for Poetry; 2008 Adirondack Literary Award for Poetry.

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
Columbus, OH
Ohio
Raised in: 
NJ
New Jersey
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Last update: May 06, 2019