Phillip Barron

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Phillip Barron
OccupationPoet, Professor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
GenrePoetry
Notable awards2019 Nicolas Guillen Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Phillip Barron is an American poet and philosopher who teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.[1] His poetry has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award[2] for philosophical literature and has been featured in many national journals including The Brooklyn Rail,[3] New American Writing,[4] and Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.[5] Barron also has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.[6][7]

What Comes from a Thing has been described by reviewers as "a masterpiece of phenomenological description in which poetry is not application or a technique for profundity but instead at the heart of philosophical/poetic evocation"[8] and as "laments of postindustrial despair, isolation, and ecological ruin."[9] Through both poetry and philosophy, Barron challenges traditional conceptions of personal identity, reframing identity as a distributed phenomenon "that comes through the tension between the artificial and the untouched."[10][11]

He was the founding editor of the poetry journal OccuPoetry, an online literary journal which documented poetry and art of the Occupy Movement.[12] He is a member of the Community of Writers poetry workshop, and he edited the 2012 issue of the Squaw Valley Review.[13]

Barron has been cited as an expert on sexism and capital punishment[14][15][16] for a 2000 article titled "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty System".[17] In 2013, he appeared on a HuffPost Live segment on gender discrimination in the death penalty.[18]

Awards and honors[edit]

  • 2019 Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award[19]
  • 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award[20]
  • 2001-02 Davis-Putter Scholarship[21]


Published works[edit]

Poetry[edit]

Bright Leaf (Horse and Buggy Press, 2022)[22]

What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015)[23]

Prose[edit]

The Outspokin' Cyclist (Avenida Books, 2011)[24]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Lewis & Clark Philosophy Faculty". Lewis & Clark College.
  2. ^ "Book Award for Philosophical Poetry". Philosophy Department News. University of Connecticut. 23 April 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  3. ^ "four poems". The Brooklyn Rail. 13 July 2015.
  4. ^ "two poems in Issue 33". New American Writing.
  5. ^ "two poems" (PDF). Janus Head.
  6. ^ MisirHiralall, Sabrina D. (6 December 2019). "APA Member Interview: Phillip Barron". Blog of the APA. American Philosophical Association. Retrieved 2 February 2020.
  7. ^ "Awarded PHDS and Placements | Philosophy Department". 16 December 2013.
  8. ^ "Black Issues in Philosophy: The 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners". Blog of the American Philosophical Association. 8 January 2019.
  9. ^ Starbuck, Scott. "Review: 'What Comes From a Thing' by Phillip Barron". Ardor.
  10. ^ Bazeley, Toby (4 October 2019). "Predoctoral Fellow Phillip Barron on narrative theory". Pioneer Log. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  11. ^ Quirici, Justin. "What Comes from a Thing by Phillip Barron". Latest Reviews. Nomadic Press.
  12. ^ OccuPoetry's entry at WorldCat. OCLC 785738917.
  13. ^ "Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Celebrates The 2012 Squaw Valley Review Poetry Anthology".
  14. ^ Lithwick, Dahlia (2010-09-21). "Lady Killer". Slate.
  15. ^ Jonsson, Patrik (2010-09-23). "Teresa Lewis: the face of gender differences on death row". The Christian Science Monitor.
  16. ^ Rohrer, Finlo (2010-09-23). "Is Teresa Lewis an unusual death row case?". BBC News.
  17. ^ Barron, Phillip (2000). "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty". Radical Philosophy Review. 3 (1): 89–96. doi:10.5840/radphilrev20003110.
  18. ^ "Is The Death Penalty Off The Table For Women?". HuffPost Live.
  19. ^ "The 2019 Caribbean Philosophical Awards Winners". 2019-01-08.
  20. ^ "Fourteen Hills book page".
  21. ^ "List of Davis-Putter winners". 2011-09-29.
  22. ^ "H&B Books". Horse & Buggy Press. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  23. ^ Barron, Phillip (2015). What comes from a thing. San Francisco: Fourteen Hills. ISBN 9781889292670. OCLC 934504674.
  24. ^ Barron, Phillip T (2011). The outspokin' cyclist. Minneapolis: Avenida Books. ISBN 9780982753019. OCLC 761702316.

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