University of Massachusetts Amherst alumnus Carl Phillips, celebrated American poet and professor emeritus of English at Washington University in St. Louis, will deliver the annual David F. Grose Memorial Lecture in Classics in the Amherst Room on the 10th floor of the Campus Center. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
Phillips earned his Master of Arts in Teaching in the Latin and Classical Humanities program at UMass Amherst. Among his 17 books of poetry are “Silverchest,” a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and “Double Shadow,” winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His collection, “Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020,” won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He has received numerous fellowships, including from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, and was the recipient of the 2021 Jackson Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, a Lambda Literary Award and the PEN/USA Award for Poetry.
The David F. Grose Memorial Lecture was inaugurated in 2005 with the support and encouragement of Grose’s family, especially his brother Dr. Charles Grose of Iowa City, Iowa.