Summary
Phillip Barron is an American poet and philosopher who teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.[1] His poetry has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award[2] for philosophical literature and has been featured in many national journals including The Brooklyn Rail,[3] New American Writing,[4] and Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.[5] Barron also has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.[6][7]
Phillip Barron | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | 2019 Nicolas Guillen Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association |
What Comes from a Thing has been described by reviewers as "a masterpiece of phenomenological description in which poetry is not application or a technique for profundity but instead at the heart of philosophical/poetic evocation"[8] and as "laments of postindustrial despair, isolation, and ecological ruin."[9] Through both poetry and philosophy, Barron challenges traditional conceptions of personal identity, reframing identity as a distributed phenomenon "that comes through the tension between the artificial and the untouched."[10][11]
He was the founding editor of the poetry journal OccuPoetry, an online literary journal which documented poetry and art of the Occupy Movement.[12] He is a member of the Community of Writers poetry workshop, and he edited the 2012 issue of the Squaw Valley Review.[13]
Barron has been cited as an expert on sexism and capital punishment[14][15][16] for a 2000 article titled "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty System".[17] In 2013, he appeared on a HuffPost Live segment on gender discrimination in the death penalty.[18]
Awards and honors edit
- 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award[19]
- 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award[20]
- 2001-02 Davis-Putter Scholarship[21]
Published works edit
Poetry edit
Bright Leaf (Horse and Buggy Press, 2022)[22]
What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015)[23]
Prose edit
The Outspokin' Cyclist (Avenida Books, 2011)[24]
References edit
- ^ "Lewis & Clark Philosophy Faculty". Lewis & Clark College.
- ^ "Book Award for Philosophical Poetry". Philosophy Department News. University of Connecticut. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
- ^ "four poems". The Brooklyn Rail. 13 July 2015.
- ^ "two poems in Issue 33". New American Writing.
- ^ "two poems" (PDF). Janus Head.
- ^ MisirHiralall, Sabrina D. (6 December 2019). "APA Member Interview: Phillip Barron". Blog of the APA. American Philosophical Association. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
- ^ "Awarded PHDS and Placements | Philosophy Department". 16 December 2013.
- ^ "Black Issues in Philosophy: The 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners". Blog of the American Philosophical Association. 8 January 2019.
- ^ Starbuck, Scott. "Review: 'What Comes From a Thing' by Phillip Barron". Ardor.
- ^ Bazeley, Toby (4 October 2019). "Predoctoral Fellow Phillip Barron on narrative theory". Pioneer Log. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ Quirici, Justin. "What Comes from a Thing by Phillip Barron". Latest Reviews. Nomadic Press.
- ^ OccuPoetry's entry at WorldCat. OCLC 785738917.
- ^ "Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Celebrates The 2012 Squaw Valley Review Poetry Anthology".
- ^ Lithwick, Dahlia (2010-09-21). "Lady Killer". Slate.
- ^ Jonsson, Patrik (2010-09-23). "Teresa Lewis: the face of gender differences on death row". The Christian Science Monitor.
- ^ Rohrer, Finlo (2010-09-23). "Is Teresa Lewis an unusual death row case?". BBC News.
- ^ Barron, Phillip (2000). "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty". Radical Philosophy Review. 3 (1): 89–96. doi:10.5840/radphilrev20003110.
- ^ "Is The Death Penalty Off The Table For Women?". HuffPost Live.
- ^ "The 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners". 2019-01-08.
- ^ "Fourteen Hills book page".
- ^ "List of Davis-Putter winners". 2011-09-29.
- ^ "H&B Books". Horse & Buggy Press. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
- ^ Barron, Phillip (2015). What comes from a thing. San Francisco: Fourteen Hills. ISBN 9781889292670. OCLC 934504674.
- ^ Barron, Phillip T (2011). The outspokin' cyclist. Minneapolis: Avenida Books. ISBN 9780982753019. OCLC 761702316.
External links edit
- Phillip Barron: Official Website
- Fourteen Hills Press