This week we welcome Philip Brady as our guest author. Philip's forthcoming book is The Elsewhere: Selected Poems and Poetics (Broadstone, 2020). His most recent book is a collection of essays, Phantom Signs: The Muse in Universe City (University of Tennessee Press, 2019) His most recent poetry book is To Banquet with the Ethiopians: A Memoir of Life Before the Alphabet (Broadstone, 2015). He is the author of three previous books of poetry, a previous collection of essays, and a memoir. He has edited a critical book on James Joyce and an anthology of contemporary poetry.
Brady’s work has received the Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; a ForeWord magazine Gold Medal; an Ohioana Poetry Award; the Ohio Governor’s Award and six Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council; and Thayer and Newhouse Fellowships from New York State.
Brady has taught at the National University of Zaire, University College Cork, and on Semester at Sea. Currently, he is Distinguished Professor of English at Youngstown State University. He is Executive Director of Etruscan Press. He also serves on the low-residency MFA faculty of Wilkes University.
Welcome, Philip.
-- sdl
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