Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is an American poet & novelist. He is the author of A World^[1] (1989), Arena ^[1](1991), Book of Hours^[2] (1996), Credence^[1] (1996), and Sand^[3] (2002), among other works of poetry, as well as the novel Hope^[3] (2007).^[4]

Life

Phillips attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Clayton Eshleman. He then attended graduate school at New York University. He is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,^[5]

He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.

Family

He lives in Pasadena, with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.

Selected bibliography

• The Hero Is Nothing, Kajun Press, San Francisco (1985)
• A World, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1989)
• Arena, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1991)
• Means, Parenthesis Writing Series, San Diego (1991)
• 20 Questions, Jahbone Press, Los Angeles (1991)
• Book of Hours, ML NLF, Piacenza, Italy (1996)
• Credence, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1996)
• Study for the Ideal City, Seeing Eye Books. Los Angeles (1999)
• Sand, Green Integer, Los Angeles (2002)
• Hope, (A Novel) Green Integer, Los Angeles (2007)
• "Preface" (by Dennis Phillips), Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika (Afterword by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books, 2009.
• "Study for the Possibilities of Hope," Pie in the Sky Press, Los Angeles (2010)
• "Navigation: Selected poems 1985 - 2010," Seismicity Editions. (Afterword by George Albon.) Los Angeles (2011)
• "Sophia's Lament," Ninja Press, Los Angeles (2012)
• "Measures," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2013)
• "Mappa Mundi," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2019)