Photograph of Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007–2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. Phillips has also written three books of prose, most recently My Trade Is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing. After more than thirty years of teaching at Washington University in St. Louis, he lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

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Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library launch new partnership

Milkweed Staff — 12/19/2024

A locally grown collaboration with national impact: Indigenous Library Steward-sustaining Partnership

Photograph by Anna Min

Chris La Tray placing his book Becoming Little Shell into the new Indigenous Little Free Library at Red Lake Nation College in Minneapolis.

Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library are excited…