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Emilia Phillips

(They/Them)
Greensboro
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Covers:  poetry, creative nonfiction, literature, arts, culture
Poet, w/ 4 📚 @uakronpress. Lyric hybrid nonfictionist. Book Reviewer. Digital Humanist. @unloneliedby. AssocProf @mfagreensboro, @UNCG_ENG, & @UNCGWGSS.

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Emilia Phillips is a poet, creative nonfiction writer, translator, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (2024), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, 2015 StoryQuarterly Nonfiction Prize, and the 2012 The Journal Poetry Prize, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews appear widely in literary publications including The Adroit Journal, Agni, American Poetry Review, The Atl…

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Removing the Me from the We of Them: A Letter to Fady Joudah

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By Abdelrahman ElGendy Verified, S. Brook Corfman, Emilia Phillips, Hannah Vander Hart
| Boston University Verified
[…] by Fady Joudah. 100 pages. Milkweed Editions, 2024. $16.00. Dear Fady, […] haunts me. It has haunted me since I first read it, bending over my desk near midnight, bathed in the amber glow of my lamp, and beside me, a cold, forgotten cup of cinnamon tea. The collection’s title, […], sets the tone: this is a text designed to disarm and unsettle. To embody the erased, the unsayable. The reader is here to do the labor of listening: Listen to the Palestinian speak. Equally, listen to their silence.
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Bi+ Visibility in Poetry

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By Emilia Phillips
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As a student poet, I never once read a book of poetry I knew to be written by a bi+ poet, much less one who expressly addressed and celebrated a non-monosexual identity. Sure, this might be partially my fault. It’s true that, at the time, I never sought out a poet writing about bi+ identities. Perhaps, subconsciously, I was too scared of what I would learn about myself.
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Four Poets Write New Histories

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By Emilia Phillips, Tracy Smith Verified, Raymond Antrobus, Tishani Doshi
| The New York Times Verified
The Shortlist Dec. 21, 2021 SUCH COLOR New and Selected Poems By Tracy K. Smith 221 pp. Graywolf. $26. “Every poem is the story of itself,” Smith writes. The stories her poems tell share a number of preoccupations — history and grief, motherhood and mythology, art and identity, internal life and outer space — that traverse her four previous collections, excerpted here along with a section, “Riot,” made up of new poems.
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