Bio

Patrick Phillips is the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America, which was named a best book of the year by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, and Smithsonian, and received an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He is also the author of four poetry collections, including Elegy for a Broken Machine, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Song of the Closing Doors, published in 2022. Phillips has received support from the Guggenheim Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, and the Carnegie Foundation, as well as a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Copenhagen, and the Lyric Poetry Award of the Poetry Society of America. He is the Eavan Boland Professor of English and Creative Writing at Stanford.

Academic Appointments

  • Professor, English

Contact

  • Academic
    pphillips@stanford.edu
    University - Faculty Department: English Position: Professor
    • Creative Writing Program
    • 450 Serra Mall, Building 460-218
    • Stanford,  California  94305 

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 5020

2024-25 Courses

All Publications

  • Casualties of the World War II metaphor: women's reproductive health fighting for narrative inclusion in COVID-19. Medical humanities Bailey, Y., Shankar, M., Phillips, P. 2021

    Abstract

    While the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, politicians and media outlets in the USA have compared the pandemic with World War II (WWII). Though women's reproductive health has been affected by both COVID-19 and WWII, these specific health needs are not included in either event's mainstream narrative. This article explores the pandemic's war metaphor through the lens of women's reproductive health, arguing for a reframing of the metaphor. Narrative-building determines how health needs are perceived and addressed. A modification of the WWII metaphor can ensure that the narrative formulating around COVID-19 is inclusive of the women's reproductive health needs that are eminently present.

    View details for DOI 10.1136/medhum-2021-012152

    View details for PubMedID 34155088

  • Song of Suburbia GEORGIA REVIEW Phillips, P. 2021; 75 (1): 198

    View details for Web of Science ID 000639569600044

  • On Three Hours Sleep GEORGIA REVIEW Phillips, P. 2021; 75 (1): 201-202

    View details for Web of Science ID 000639569600046

  • The Couple GEORGIA REVIEW Phillips, P. 2021; 75 (1): 199-200

    View details for Web of Science ID 000639569600045

  • Prayer AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2020; 49 (6): 30

    View details for Web of Science ID 000582753900036

  • The Anniversary AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2020; 49 (6): 30

    View details for Web of Science ID 000582753900037

  • Jubilate Civitas AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2020; 49 (6): 30

    View details for Web of Science ID 000582753900035

  • Elegy with Table Saw & Cobwebs NEW ENGLAND REVIEW-MIDDLEBURY SERIES Phillips, P. 2020; 41 (1): 171

    View details for Web of Science ID 000519651800033

  • Ars Poetica AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2018; 47 (6): 7

    View details for Web of Science ID 000448495200010

  • Countrywide AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2018; 47 (6): 7

    View details for Web of Science ID 000448495200008

  • For Paul AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Phillips, P. 2018; 47 (6): 7

    View details for Web of Science ID 000448495200009

  • Palimpsest NEW ENGLAND REVIEW-MIDDLEBURY SERIES Phillips, P. 2018; 39 (2): 175–76

    View details for Web of Science ID 000435229300036