Rowan ricardo phillips biography for kids
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Rowan ricardo phillips biography for kids
Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American poet (born 1974)
Rowan Ricardo Phillips (born 1974 in New York City) is an American poet, writer, editor, and translator. He is a Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University,[1] the poetry editor of The New Republic,[2] and the editor of Princeton University Press' Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry.[3] He is President of the Board of the New York Institute for the Humanities.[4]
He is the author of the poetry collections The Ground (2012),[5]Heaven (2015),[6] and Living Weapon (2020),[7] the non-fiction books When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness[8] and The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey,[9] and a translation from the Catalan of Salvador Espriu's short-story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth.[10]
Life
Phillips was born in New York City and grew up in the Bronx.
His parents are from Antigua and Barbud