The Need for Dreaming, The Heat of the Sun

Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Double Shadow (FSG 2011), recently named a National Book Award Finalist, Speak Low (FSG 2009) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006, as well as a book of prose, Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Art and Life of Poetry, and a translation of Sophocles’s Philoctetes. Phillips's twelfth book of poems, Silverchest , is slated for publication in 2013. His honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Pushcart Prize, induction into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress. His poems have been chosen eight times for the annual Best American Poetry series. Phillips is Professor of English and of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also teaches in the Creative Writing Program.

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Fall 2010

Table of Contents

Poetry

John Gallaher

Ouyang Jianghe & Austin Woerner

W.S. Merwin

Cheyenne Nimes

Matthew Olzmann

Charlotte Pence

Carl Phillips

Victor Rodríguez-Núñez

Stefi Weisburd

Fiction

Randi Beck

Norman Ellis

C. J. Hauser

Stephen Marche

Christian Piers

Essay

A. L. Baumgartner

W.S. Merwin

David Rutschman

Sejal Shah

Richard Snow

Review

Elliott Holt on Emma Donoghue

Hilary Plum on Khaled Mattawa

Interview

Sierra Nelson with Ouyang Jianghe and Austin Woerner

David Baker and David H. Lynn with W.S. Merwin

Special Feature

Sierra Nelson and Loren Erdrich

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