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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips
Born on July 23, 1959, Carl Phillips's collection The Rest of Love won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry...
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Postcard: Advice to a Young Poet

 
by Carl Phillips



DON'T WORRY ABOUT WHAT
ANYONE ELSE THINKS —
WRITE WHAT YOU MUST
.







Copyright © 2013 by Carl Phillips.
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