Writer and poet Rowan Ricardo Phillips will read from his latest work as part of the Fall 2024 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series. The event will be held in the Rhodes-Rawling Auditorium, Klarman Hall KG70, on Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. A book signing and reception will follow the reading, in partnership with Buffalo Street Books.


“Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a renowned sportswriter, and has written extensively on baseball, soccer, and tennis. He is, however, first and foremost a poet of the highest order, full of formal sophistication, lyrical possibility, and musical syncopation. He will come to us with his new book of poetry,” said Valzhyna Mort, associate professor of literatures in English and director of the Creative Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S).

Phillips is the author of seven books of poetry, prose and translation. His many honors include the Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award and the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award. Phillips has also been a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry and an NAACP Image Award, and has been long-listed for the National Book Award for Poetry.

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