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Carl Phillips on What Poetry Offers

Pulitzer-winning poet Carl Phillips on his work and the power of poetry

“Speak to me; speak into me, / the wind said, when I woke this morning, Let’s see what happens.” In this PBS NewsHour video, Carl Phillips reads a selection of poems from his Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2022), and speaks to Jeffrey Brown about the intimacy and power of poetry. Phillips is the recipient of the 2021 Jackson Poetry Prize.

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Carl Phillips
Then the War
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022
Pulitzer Prize
PBS NewsHour
Jeffrey Brown
Jackson Poetry Prize

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