Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Phillips in 2020
Phillips in 2020
Born1974 (age 49–50)
New York, New York, US
OccupationPoet
Writer
Alma mater
GenrePoetry · Sportswriting · Nonfiction · Essay · Literary Criticism · Translation · Screenwriting
Website
rowanricardophillips.com

Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University,[1] the poetry editor of The New Republic,[2] and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry.[3] He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[4]

He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012),[5] Heaven (2015),[6] and Living Weapon (2020),[7] the non-fiction books When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness[8] and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey,[9] and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth.[10]

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  2. ^ "The New Republic". The New Republic. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  3. ^ "Contemporary Poets". press.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  4. ^ "Board". NEW YORK INSTITUTE FOR THE HUMANITIES. Retrieved 2023-08-15.
  5. ^ McHenry, Eric (2013-01-25). "Poetry Chronicle (Published 2013)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  6. ^ "Heaven". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  7. ^ "Poetry Book Review: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $23 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-19199-3". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  8. ^ "When Blackness Rhymes With Blackness | Dalkey Archive Press". Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  9. ^ Lawrence, Andrew (2018-12-10). "A Book That Honors an Underrated Sport". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-11-16.
  10. ^ Dillman, Lisa (2013-09-02). "Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth by Salvador Espriu". Translation Review. 87 (1): 108–110. doi:10.1080/07374836.2013.835140. ISSN 0737-4836. S2CID 171023416.