Phillip B. Williams, a Master of Fine Arts candidate in creative writing in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is one of five young poets awarded a $15,000 scholarship from the Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine. The Poetry Foundation scholarship is among largest U.S. awards for an aspiring poet
The 2013 Ruth Lilly Fellowships, announced recently, are intended to encourage the further study and writing of poetry. The program is open to all U.S. poets between 21 and 31 years of age.
Williams, a Chancellor’s Graduate Fellow at WUSTL, was born in Chicago in 1986. He is the author of the chapbooks Bruised Gospels (Arts in Bloom Inc., 2011) and Burn (YesYes Books, 2013).
Williams is a Cave Canem graduate and the poetry editor of the online journal Vinyl Poetry. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Callaloo, Kenyon Review Online, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Southern Review and West Branch, among others.
Poetry by Williams and the four other 2013 fellowship recipients will be featured in Poetry magazine’s November issue and on poetryfoundation.org.
Other 2013 recipients include Harmony Holiday, Matthew Nienow, Hannah Sanghee Park and Natalie Shapero.
