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Phillip Barron

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Roberto Bolaño

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Phillip Barron is a poet and philosopher.

His first book of poetry, What Comes from a Thing, won the 2015 Michael Rubin Book Award and was published by Fourteen Hills Press. Elsewhere, his poems appear in New American Writing, Brooklyn Rail, Fourteen Hills, and Janus Head. He is a member of the Community of Writers.

He has an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Connecticut.

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What Comes from a Thing

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The Outspokin' Cyclist

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Desert Landscapes

While in graduate school, I wrote a little thing about nothing. I’m not sure if it is a prose poem or a story or an essay, but whatever it is, the cross-genre journal Espacio Fronterizo found room for it in their November 2023 publications. Thanks to the editors for letting “Desert Landscapes” find a home.

When you see a train, you see the whole miles-long train of hoppers and tankers and engine

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