Carl Phillips

The new and selected from @erinwriter.bsky.social is guaranteed 🔥 🔥 🔥! Out this fall!

Thanks so much — people used to get so rattled when I’d get to that part at a reading… 🫢

I hope it makes the day warmer and less melancholy! Thanks so much for reading!

Thx so much @scryptkeeper.bsky.social & @slowdownshow.org for these words and for featuring my poem! Maybe one day I’ll say how I came up with that title…

Thx to @phillipcrymble.bsky.social @fiddlehd.bsky.social for featuring some of my poems! Here’s one!

Omg thank you for publishing the poems — I’m eager to see the new issue!

Thank you so much for saying so!

Thank you so much for reading!

Thx so much to Maggie Millner and everyone at @yalereview.bsky.social !

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It’s very cold here, but I’m blushing…

Strangely beautiful…

Wild…

This is wild and I don’t know if I understand it but I’m intrigued and scared and strangely moved?

Well that’s a very kind thing to say — thank you!

The Glade Here, complete with half-swallowed cry of small game rising, stirring the light, is that ease with which a legend goes languorously down on itself, slow-dying; this is the air left behind, thick with…

Here,
where his body lay, gather up all
the broken-stemmed flowers;

photograph the water, that in
the wind repeatedly makes for shore
and misses—

~from "The Glade"
by Carl Phillips
AGNI 33

“Making safety in the moment.” Linda Gregg

My only syllabic poem! Written when I had my students write a syllabic poem for a prosody class! (And then I dismantled it, years later, and saved only one line, which appears in a different poem…) #revision

A snowy yard with woods in the background, and sunset breaking through the trees

“ — Why not move like light, reflected, across the snow?”

Thank you! From my very first book - In the Blood - (being reissued this March)!

Thank you! And a poem or two daily seems a perfect way to read a book of poetry! Happy new year…

“Even the air will have to pretend.”

- Prince of Fire/Prince by Jane Mead

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#TodaysPoem #SundaySentence

Finding myself included in the Heated Rivalry mix, thx to syntax, wasn’t anywhere on my end-of-2025 bingo card, but I’m absolutely here for it…

A space, a moment in which we can safely trust — that may be the most useful and valuable gift we can give one another.

Wow! This calligraphy gives the poem a whole different life…! Thank you!

A classic already!

A poem that deepens with each reading, and each time haunts me differently…

a little girl is shoveling snow with a shovel and a bag . Alt: a little child is shoveling snow with a shovel and falls over, only to be righted by their parent.

My new poetry column is up, with a round-up of winter snow poems to consider - featuring poems by Louise Glück, Carl Phillips, @toddedillard.bsky.social, Alex Dimitrov, Emily Dickinson, Joy Harjo & other favorites.

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Excellent! And thanks so much for including my poem in this roundup!

Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…