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BIOGRAPHY

Philip White joined the »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ faculty in 1999. He is a professor of English, and was named a »Æ¹ÏÊÓƵ Scholar in 2007. He had previously taught at Brigham Young University and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

PUBLICATIONS

White’s interests include Shakespeare, Poetry, African American Literature, Ancient Chinese literature and philosophy. His poems and translations have also appeared or are forthcoming in The New Republic, Slate, Poetry, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, Literary Imagination, Agni, New England Review, Southern Review, and elsewhere.

AWARDS

He has won a Pushcart Prize for poetry and a Willis Barnstone Prize for poetry translation. His book of poems, The Clearing, won the 2007 Walt Macdonald award.