The UMass Amherst Department of Classics invites CANE members to join in remotely for a lecture by the renowned poet, Carl Phillips. As our 2026 David Grose Memorial Lecturer, Professor Phillips will share his work and reflections on a fascinating career. caneweb.org/invitation-t...
“Each poem is a fumbling forward, toward a glimpse of clarity through a thicket of quandary, before everything blurs again back to the everyday business of living a life that mostly doesn't include a lot of self-reflection; we might see more than we should, or wanted to.” — Carl Phillips
Amorak Huey@amorak.bsky.social · 5mo agoCarl Phillips—
So honored to be part of it!
Rob Taylor@roblucastaylor.bsky.social · 5mo agoPoetry people, the new issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social is bonkers. Carl Phillips, Alexandra Oliver, Emily Davidson, Julie Bruck, an interview with Mary Dalton, and so much more. Check it out! (The first poem is by Carl Phillips, the second by Julie Bruck.)
34 years ago my first book came out and changed my life — today is PUB DAY for the reissue, with a new afterword! Thank you, little book, and thank you @fsgbooks.bsky.social
Happy pub day to @cphillipspoet.bsky.social! His debut collection, IN THE BLOOD, has been reissued by @fsgbooks.bsky.social. Read about how his first book outed him—and saved his life. yalereview.org/article/carl...
Carl Phillips: “My First Book Outed Me”
While writing my debut collection of poems, I discovered both my queerness and my calling as a poet.
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The new and selected from @erinwriter.bsky.social is guaranteed 🔥 🔥 🔥! Out this fall!
Erin Belieu@erinwriter.bsky.social · 5mo agoOh! One of two new poems from my forthcoming Cocklebur: New & Selected. Copper Canyon 2026. Thank you for the excellent company, Copper Nickel. My best advice for the youth. Lol. ❤️
Thanks so much — people used to get so rattled when I’d get to that part at a reading… 🫢
poemakontsa@poemakontsa.bsky.social · 6mo agoCarl Phillips, on how peonies are like rough sex... Great erotic poem, showing how it's done. Distortion
Thx so much @scryptkeeper.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for these words and for featuring my poem! Maybe one day I’ll say how I came up with that title…
The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · 6mo ago"'Crossing the Rubicon' has long been a widely used idiom. It refers to having stepped over a line, or passed a point of no return," guest host @scryptkeeper.bsky.social shares in episode 1456. Read “Rubicon” by Carl Phillips, from SPEAK LOW (@fsgbooks.bsky.social): bit.ly/3Ma4QMt
Thx to @phillipcrymble.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social for featuring some of my poems! Here’s one!
Omg thank you for publishing the poems — I’m eager to see the new issue!
phillip crymble@phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 6mo agoSo moved by this Carl Phillips poem in our new issue.
Here, where his body lay, gather up all the broken-stemmed flowers; photograph the water, that in the wind repeatedly makes for shore and misses— ~from "The Glade" by Carl Phillips AGNI 33
The Glade
Here, complete with half-swallowed cry of small game rising, stirring the light, is that ease with which a legend goes languorously down on itself, slow-dying; this is the air left behind, thick with…
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My only syllabic poem! Written when I had my students write a syllabic poem for a prosody class! (And then I dismantled it, years later, and saved only one line, which appears in a different poem…) #revision
phillip crymble@phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 7mo agoCarl Phillips
“ — Why not move like light, reflected, across the snow?”
Thank you! From my very first book - In the Blood - (being reissued this March)!
poemakontsa@poemakontsa.bsky.social · 7mo agoA beautiful, gorgeous poem by one of my favorite living poets, Carl Phillips @cphillipspoet.bsky.social Blue This is the black, shot with blue, of my dark daddy's knuckles, that do not change, ever.
Thank you! And a poem or two daily seems a perfect way to read a book of poetry! Happy new year…
Amanda Earl@amandaearl.bsky.social · 7mo ago@cphillipspoet.bsky.social I'm really enjoying Scattered Snows, to the North. i read a poem or two daily and mull over a line or an image.
“Even the air will have to pretend.” - Prince of Fire/Prince by Jane Mead www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi... @poetryfoundation.bsky.social #TodaysPoem #SundaySentence
Finding myself included in the Heated Rivalry mix, thx to syntax, wasn’t anywhere on my end-of-2025 bingo card, but I’m absolutely here for it…
Lee Mandelo@leemandelo.bsky.social · 8mo agoAn essay by Laura Sackton inspired by Heated Rivalry, reflecting on the complexities of “coming out” as a political/discursive act in a heterosexist world… vs inter-community signaling, recognition, language, intimacy, etc for showing each other who’s family poetryschool.beehiiv.com/p/volume-5-n...
A space, a moment in which we can safely trust — that may be the most useful and valuable gift we can give one another.
Wow! This calligraphy gives the poem a whole different life…! Thank you!
Jared Pechaček@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 8mo ago"Regime," Carl Phillips
