'Then the War'
A conversation with award-winning poet and classicist Carl Phillips on vulnerability, the war between violence and tenderness, and why children write better poems than adults.
By Michael Judge
Most of the poets I know—at least the ones I respect—pause when asked what it is, exactly, they do for a living. None blurt out “I’m a poet.” Most prefer to say something like “I’m a writer” or “I write and teach poetry.” Seamus Heaney, the late great Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner, s…
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