Louis Phillips (born June 15, 1942) is an American poet, playwright, editor, and author of children's stories.
Phillips was born on June 15, 1942, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He received a BA from Stetson University in 1964, and MAs from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and CUNY in 1965 and 1967, respectively. Since 1977 he has served as professor of humanities at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he teaches creative writing.
Phillips has authored or co-authored around fifty books for children and adults, including five collections of short stories and several volumes of poetry. He is the editor of two Random House poetry anthologies, The Random House Treasury of Best Loved Poems and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse. He was a joint winner of a 1984 Swallow's Tale Press poetry award, and was the featured poet in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Light Quarterly.
His full-length plays have been performed in various New York City and American regional theatres, and his one-act plays have appeared in Aethlon, The Massachusetts Review, and The Georgia Review.
He is the brother-in-law of John Ranard, photographer.
Bibliography
Short stories
A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live (SMU Press, 1993) The Bus to the Moon and Other Stories (Fort Schuyler Press, 2002) The Woman Who Wrote King Lear, and Other Stories (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008) Fireworks in Some Particulars and Other Writings (Fort Schuyler Press, 2010) Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2012)
Plays
The Last of The Marx Brothers' Writers (Broadway Play Publishers) The Envoi Messages (Broadway Play Publishers, 1985) The Ballroom in St. Patrick's Cathedral (Broadway Play Publishers) The Great American Quiz Show Scandal (Broadway Play Publishers) Sixteen Points on a Hurricane's Compass Frankenstein Virtuoso Kops Wabeck Goin' West The Man who Ate Einstein's Brain Narragansett 1937 (World Audience Publishers, 2010)
Poetry
R.I.P.: A Poetic Sequence (Livington Press, 2003) The Krazy Cat Rag (Light Reprint Press, 1999) Bulkington (Hollow Spring Press, 1981) The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of The Place (Swallow's Tale Press, 1985) Celebrations and Bewilderments (Fragments Press, 1975) Quick Flicks: Clerihews by Louis Phillips (World Audience Publishers, 2013) Into the Well of Knowingness (Prologue Press, 2000) In the Field of Broken Hearts (Prologue Press, 1990) Afterheat (Prologue Press, 2011) Amid Things Visible (Prologue Press, 2006) Landscape with Three Human Figures (Prologue Press, 1972) Memoirs of a Pin-ball Mechanic (Prologue Press, 1991) That More Things Move Poems (Prologue Press, 1978) The Applesauce Chronicles, Volume 1 (Prologue Press, 2004) Quick Flicks #5: Lives of the Famous, the Infamous, and the Nearly Unknown (Prologue Press, 2012) Radio Station WGOD is on the Air (Prologue Press, 1978) Boundaries (Prologue Press, 1970) The Emancipation of the Encyclopedia Salesman (Prologue Press, 1972) How Wide the Meadow, { Poetry Collection} (World Audience. Inc, 2019)Meadow surprisesEdited anthologiesThe Random House Treasury of Best Loved Poems (Random House, 1990)The Random House Treasury of Light Verse (Random House, 1995)