Episode 33: Phillip B. Williams
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Episode 33: Phillip B. Williams
Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Phillip B. Williams' poem "Final Poem for My Father Misnamed In My Mouth."
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Phillip B. Williams was born in Chicago, Illinois, and earned his MFA from Washington University, where he was a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow. He is the author of the poetry collection Thief in the Interior (2016), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, as well as the chapbooks, Burn (2013) and Bruised Gospels (2011).
A Cave Canem graduate, Williams is the recipient of a Whiting Award and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship. He is coeditor of the online journal Vinyl and teaches at Bennington College.
Source: Poetry Foundation
