Emilia Phillips is the author of two poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, Signaletics (2013) and Groundspeed (2016), and three chapbooks, most recently Beneath the Ice Fish Like Souls Look Alike (Bull City Press, 2015). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, Boston Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her third book, Empty Clip, will be published by the University of Akron Press Spring 2018.
Poetry
Winter 2013
Sublimation
I. Miscarriage. —after the “Turba Philosophorum’“ My curio, my heart murmur, the retching echoes inside the shower babel: red by the body mixed with it. Tenuous nature in the belly […]
Summer 2013
Becoming Feral: a Review of Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye
“By no other species except man will the animal’s look be recognized as familiar,” writes John Berger in “Why Look at Animals?” Berger’s comment returned to me while reading Paisley Rekdal’s fourth collection of poetry, Animal Eye.