Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of The Ground (FSG: 2012) for which he received a Whiting Award, the PEN/Osterweil Award for Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. Heaven will be published by FSG in June 2015. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.
Nonfiction
Winter 2004
When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness
On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden An Essay in Verse I. Let’s begin with a conclusion: Robert Hayden’s sense of form Was sporadic—beautifully so—and was set in motion less […]
The Kenyon Review Credos
As Though We Have Nothing Else to Rely On
The Kenyon Review Credos What is poetry? How can I explain it? And how do I explain it to you in prose? At moments like these prose is a brick […]