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Online Program: Poets House Presents: Xandria Phillips

Jun 26, 2020 | 12:00 pm - 12:15 pm

Xandria Phillips

Lambda Literary Award winner Xandria Phillips reads from their debut collection HULL (Nightboat Books, 2019), from Chicago, IL.

Phillips is a writer, educator, and visual artist from rural Ohio. The recipient of the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging Writers, Xandria has received fellowships from Oberlin College, Cave Canem, Callaloo, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Their poetry has been featured in American Poetry Review, Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Poets.org, Virginia Quarterly Review, and BOMB Magazine. Xandria’s poem, “For a Burial Free of Sharks” won the GIGANTIC Sequins Poetry Contest judged by Lucas de Lima. Xandria’s chapbook, Reasons for Smoking won the 2016 Seattle Review Chapbook Contest judged by Claudia Rankine. Their first book, HULL was published by Nightboat Books in 2019 and is the winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Trans Poetry, as well as a finalist for the believer award.

Poets House Presents is a series of 10 minute readings by poets that are posted on TwitterFacebookIGTV, and YouTube and our Archive, on Wednesdays and Fridays at noon.

Admission Free Online Program.

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Jun 26, 2020
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12:00 pm - 12:15 pm
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