Patrick Phillips Q&A on the first poem he ever wrote
Patrick Phillips, author of the collection Chattahoochee, talks about the first poem he ever wrote.
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Patrick Phillips Q&A on form
Patrick Phillips, author of the collection Chattahoochee, talks about how he employs form in his poetry.
Patrick Phillips Q&A on writing out loud
Patrick Phillips, author of the collection Chattahoochee, talks about saying his poems out loud as he writes.
Patrick Phillips Q&A on his writing time
Patrick Phillips, author of the collection Chattahoochee, talks about his writing time.
Lower Manhattan Pantoum
Always a bad sign people on the sidewalk looking up. A crowd forms, cars slow then stop, people on the sidewalk looking up. I step into the pool of them then stop. I gape like the others. I step into the pool of them, become the pool and gape like the others. Mothers, peddlers, suits […]
Public Transportation
She is perfectly ordinary, a cashmere scarf snugly wrapped around her neck. She is a middle age that is crisp, appealing in New York. She is a brain surgeon or a designer of blowdryers. I know this because I am in her skin this morning riding the bus, happy to be not young, happy to […]
Rethinking Regret
Let’s thank our mistakes, let’s bless them for their humanity, their terribly weak chins. We should offer them our gratitude and admiration for giving us our clefts and scarring us with embarrassment, the hot flash of confession. Thank you, transgressions! for making us so right in our imperfections. Less flawed, we might have turned away, […]
Hotel Recamier
Ten years later I could swear the old orange spreads are now curtains. We traded our double in back for more light and this view. The narrow single beds are brand new and we push them together, a familiar gesture, the first night. The chambermaids are used to this. They smooth out the sheets every […]