UA’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series Welcomes Carl Phillips

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series will host author Carl Phillips on Oct. 17, 2002 at 7:30 p.m. in 205 Smith Hall.

Phillips is the author of six collections of poetry, including “Pastoral, From the Devotions,” which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and “Cortege,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.

He received the 2002 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his collection, “The Tether,” published in 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Phillips is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. He is a professor of English and African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.

Phillips will give a lecture before the reading in 301 Morgan Hall at noon on Oct. 17.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, The University of Alabama’s Program in Creative Writing, the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact UA’s creative writing program at 205/348-0766 or visit www.bama.ua.edu/~writing/.