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Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips received his B.A. from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from Brown University. His fields of interests are the writing and practice of poetry, poetics and translation. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Chelsea, The C.L.R. James Journal, Harvard Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, No: A Journal of the Arts, and Seneca Review among others. He has also published translations of Dante and of the Catalan poets Josep Carner, Tomàs Garcés, Joan Maragall and Melcion Mateu.  He was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and has published articles, criticism and verse essays on diverse themes in American, African-American and Caribbean poetry. Currently, he is working on his first book of poems and on a book of criticism. His poetry has been published in translation into Catalan and Italian and he has read at universities across the US, as well as at Oxford University and the Ateneu Barcelonès in Barcelona.


Rowan Ricardo Phillips

Assistant Professor. Ph.D. Brown University, 2003; Poetry; Poetics; African-American and Caribbean literature.

2077 Humanities; T 10.15am-11.15am, 1pm-2pm; TH 1pm-2pm; and by appt.
Rowan.Phillips@stonybrook.edu
631.632.7374

Current Courses:

Fall 2008
  • The Art of the Poetic Line (EGL 361) TTH 11.20am-12.40pm
  • Contemporary African American Poetry (EGL 367) TH 2.20pm-3.40pm

Selected Publications:

Book:
  • When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: Essays on African-American Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press, forthcoming)

Edited Journal:
  • The C.L.R. James Journal (Special Commemorative Issue for Aimé Césaire), co-edited with Lewis R. Gordon.  Winter 2008 (forthcoming)

Poems in Journals and Magazines
  • “Grief and the Imaginary Grave.” Tuesday: An Art Project Issue1:3 (Spring 2008).
  • “Purgatorio, Canto XXVI.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 64-68.
  • “Eurydice.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 63.
  • “Moon Over Meaning.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 62.
  • “Song, A Terminal Song.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 61.
  • “Bench.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 60.
  • “Self-Portrait in Matinée Distances.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 59.
  • “Map, Incomplete, 1660.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 58.
  • “Burnt Into a Blown Apart Wall.” Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007), 57.
  • ”Complex 26: Lost at Sea.” Callaloo 30.2 (Special Diaspora Issue) (Spring 2007), 609-614.
  • “After Antigua: Finally, for Tim Hector.”  The C.L.R. James Journal
  • “Portrait of the Old Country.” The C.L.R. James Journal 13.1 (Spring 2007).
  • “The Greenness of the Earth.”  Tuesday; An Art Project Issue 1:1 (Spring 2007).
  • “Tonight.” The New Republic Vol. 235 Issue 15 (9 October 2006), 32.
  • “A Vision through the Smoke.” The New Republic Vol. 233 Issue 25 (9 Dec 2005), 36.
  • “Closing Night’s Nocturne.” The New Republic Vol. 232 Issue 8 (7 March 2005), 28.
  • “Tableau: Derek Walcott.”  Callaloo 28.1 (2005), 87.
  • “Echo.” The Iowa Review 34.3 (Winter 2004/2005), 126.
  • “Golden.” The New Yorker (26 May 2004), 85.
  • “Lower Quartet.” No; A Journal of the Arts 3 (2004).
  • “When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden (An Essay in Verse)” The Kenyon Review 26.1 (Winter 2004), 150-156. [Feature Essay at Poetry Daily: http://www.poems.com/essarowa.htm]
  • “Sin Vergüenza.” Harvard Review 23 (Fall 2002), 128.
  • “The Difficult Archangel: Wilson Harris (An Essay in Verse).”  The C.L.R. James Journal (Winter 1999-2000), 14-19.
  • “La Angelita Necesita . . .” Seneca Review 27.2 (1998), 55-57.
Poetry in Translation
  • “Stanotte,” (“Tonight” tr. Luigi Fontanella) Journal of Italian Translation 2 (Spring 2007), 168-169.

Translations
  • Various Essays and Articles La Vanguardia “Cultura/s”.
  • “Purgatorio, Canto XXVI” (by Dante Alighieri), Chelsea 82/83 (November 2007)
  • “Removal.” (“Mudançes” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover). Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri (April 2007), 23. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona
  • “Funeral.”  (“Funeral” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover).  Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri, (April 2007) 27. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona
  • “Tied Islands.”  (“Illes Lligades” by Melcion Mateu i Adrover).  Made in CataluNYa: Catalan Poets Pay Homage to Pedro Pietri, (April 2007) 29. Published and commissioned by the Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona

Verse Essays
  • “When Blackness Rhymes with Blackness: On Bard and Balladry in Robert Hayden (An Essay in Verse)” The Kenyon Review 26.1 (Winter 2004), 150-156. [Feature Essay at Poetry Daily: http://www.poems.com/essarowa.htm]
  • “The Difficult Archangel: Wilson Harris (An Essay in Verse).”  The C.L.R. James Journal (Winter 1999-2000), 14-19.

Articles in Academic Journals
  • “Derek Walcott: Imagination, Nation, and the Poetics of Memory.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 11 (February 2002).  112-132.
 
Essays in Books
  • "The Whitman Line."  Whitman Noir, ed. by Ivy Wilson. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.  (forthcoming)
  • “Homage to Mistress Wheatley.”  A Companion to African American Studies. ed. by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon.  Oxford: Blackwell.  (2006), 171-191.
  • “The Blue Century: Brief Notes on African-American Poetry.”  A Concise Companion to 20th Century American Poetry.  ed. by Stephen Fredman.  Oxford: Blackwell.  (2005), 135-150.
Reviews
  • “African American Poetry Anthologies.”  The Chicago Review (forthcoming).
  • “A Review of Bernadine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe.”  Callaloo 27.2 (Spring 2004).