Rowan Ricardo Phillips

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Poet · Male

Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet. He won a 2013 Whiting Award and an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2016. 2Life He graduated from Swarthmore College and Brown University.His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Granta. 2Awards and honors 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist for poetry, for The Ground 2013 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award winner for poetry, for The Ground 2013 NAACP Image Award finalist for Outstanding Literary Work, Poetry, for The Ground 2013 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry winner, for The Ground 2013 Whiting Award winner for poetry 2015 Guggenheim Fellow 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for "Heaven" 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist for Heaven 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award for Heaven, given by the Caribbean Philosophical Association 2Works PoetryThe Ground: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4668-0253-7. Heaven: Poems. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. June 201

From “Little Songs”

“We have entered each other's atmosphere in isolation, the way a bee knows the deep shadows in the folds of a flower but doesn't know what a bouquet is.”