Jake Phillips is a queer poet based in Rhode Island. He is a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal and was awarded a 2024 Make Art Grant by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. His poetry has been published and is forthcoming in AGNI, The Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, The Penn Review, Salt Hill, swamp pink, and elsewhere.
Poetry
Spring 2025
Neighbors
The Kenyon Review · “Neighbors” by Jake Phillips You may not be enraged at the world like me,but you are just as nervous. I think we’re gladto see each other […]
Poetry
Spring 2025
We stare silent at the dead deer
The Kenyon Review · “We stare silent at the dead deer” by Jake Phillips Their carcasses hang, fresh. From herewe can only smell November, wettedspill of leaves & the still-thick […]
Poetry
Spring 2025
& the rest
The Kenyon Review · “& the rest” by Jake Phillips One day she will die in my backyard& her spotless babies will abandonher body just there at the edgeby the […]