Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently SILVERCHEST and DOUBLE SHADOW.

He has also translated Sophocles’s PHILOCTETES and written two books of prose, COIN OF THE REALM: ESSAYS ON THE LIFE AND ART OF POETRY and THE ART OF DARING: RISK, RESTLESSNESS, IMAGINATION. Hisawardsincludethe Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and prizes and fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Library of Congress. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Fivehundred places is a press established by Jason Dodge in an attempt to bring new readers to some of the poets that have been so important to his thinking and working over the past decades.

With a single printing of 500 copies, each book will find itself in one of 500 places.

Each Fivehundred places book also features a Dead Scissor by Paul Elliman on its cover.