Verse Like Water presents poet Rowen Ricardo Phillips 

Verse Like Water, the visiting poetry program of Central Lakes College, will present poet Rowen Ricardo Phillips at noon on April 29 in the Chalberg Theatre. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow, and 175 hardcover copies of his latest book, Silver, will be provided for free thanks to the Olseth Family Foundation. An informal craft talk will be in room E339 at 1:30 p.m. 

Phillips is the author of six books. His books have been named a book of the year by the Washington Post, the Guardian (UK), NPR, and the Australian Review of Books. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, he is also the recipient of a Whiting Award, the GLCA New Writers Award for Poetry, the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize for Poetry, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, and an Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

A prodigious sportswriter, Phillips has written on sports for the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, the New Republic, and the Paris Review. He is currently a visiting professor of creative writing at Princeton where he also serves as the editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poetry, a professor of English at Stony Brook University, the president of the board of the New York Institute of the Humanities, and the poetry editor of the New Republic.