Carl Phillips has been selected for Gov. Jay Nixon’s advisory committee to choose Missouri’s new poet laureate in 2010. Phillips is the author of 10 books of poetry, most recently Speak Low (2009) and Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (2007). His honors include awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets. He is professor of English at Washington University.
