Sheila Nolan Whalen Series: Poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips will hold a reading of his poetry as part of the English Department's Sheila Nolan Whalen Series. 

The reading will be held at 4 p.m. on Tuesday,  Sept. 25, in the Sinquefield Stateroom. Phillips is the author of Heaven, which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award, and The Ground, for which he received a 2013 Whiting Writers’ Award. He has written about soccer and basketball for The Paris Review, and The Circuit: a Tennis Odyssey, is forthcoming in November.

The author of the influential critical volume When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness, Philips is also the translator of Salvador Espriu’s story collection Ariadne in the Grotesque Labyrinth as well as numerous other works from Catalan, Spanish, and Italian