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Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English
The Provost's Spotlight Talks feature eminent visitors to the university as well as SBU faculty members who have recently been recognized for outstanding contributions in their field. Rowan delivered a talk titled "Why Poetry?" on Thursday, September 25th, 2025. Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation. His forthcoming nonfiction book, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Twice longlisted for the National Book Award, he has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, and an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, the poetry editor of The New Republic, and editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English
The Provost's Spotlight Talks feature eminent visitors to the university as well as SBU faculty members who have recently been recognized for outstanding contributions in their field. Rowan delivered a talk titled "Why Poetry?" on Thursday, September 25th, 2025. Rowan Ricardo Phillips is the author of seven acclaimed books of poetry, prose, and translation. His forthcoming nonfiction book, I Just Want Them to Remember Me: Black Baseball in America, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Twice longlisted for the National Book Award, he has received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award, and an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the Presidential Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Stony Brook University, the poetry editor of The New Republic, and editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets.
