Anna Lena Phillips

Anna Lena Phillips teaches in the creative writing department at UNC Wilmington, where she is editor of Ecotone and for Lookout Books. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in the Southern Review, International Poetry Review, and the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and she is the author of A Pocket Book of Forms.

BookmarkedMay 13, 2015

Anna Lena Phillips’s Five Poets of Place

By Anna Lena Phillips

It can be hard to talk about place-based writers—for a lot of people, I think, “place” signals “environmental,” which signals on-to-the-next. It’s a big…