Philip St. Clair

Philip St. Clair is the author of five books of poetry: Red Cup, Green Lawn (Main Street Rag Publishing, January 2020), Acid Creek (in Human Landscapes, Bottom Dog, 1997), Little-Dog-Of-Iron (Ahsahta, 1985), At the Tent of Heaven (Ahsahta, 1984), and In the Thirty-Nine Steps (Shelley's,1980).  His three chapbooks are Phantom Limb: Ten Appalachian Poems (BullHead Books, 2017), Divided House (Finishing Line, 2005), and #176 in Pudding Press's Greatest Hits series (2003).  Vicksburg, his book-length Civil War poem, was posted electronically via Kindle Direct Publishing in November of 2013.  His poems have been published in many journals and magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Ploughshares, Poetry Review (London), Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and Southern Poetry Review.  His work has appeared in anthologies from Ahsahta Press, Bottom Dog Press, the University of Akron Press, and elsewhere: in 2009, four poems were reprinted in the University Press of Kentucky's What Comes Down to Us: 25 Contemporary Kentucky Poets; in 2010, his poem "Water" was included in Mentor and Muse from Southern Illinois University Press. Awards include a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, an Al Smith fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, and the Bullis Prize from Poetry Northwest.