Running on Empty: New Poems

by Robert S. Phillips

79 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

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American poet, author and editor, usually publishes under the name Robert Phillips.

Robert S. Phillips was born 1938 in Milford, Delaware and is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. A graduate of Syracuse University's creative writing program, he is currently (May 2007) a professor of English at the University of Houston; he was also director of the Creative Writing Program there from 1991 to 1996. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Council on the Arts CAPS Grant in Poetry, MacDowell Colony and Yaddo Fellowships, a National Public Radio Syndicated Fiction Project Award, a Syracuse University Arents Pioneer Medal, and Texas Institute of Letters membership. In 1998 he was named a John and Rebecca Moore Scholar at the University of Houston.
[Portions of biographical sketch taken from Mr. Phillips' faculty home page at the University of Houston, http://www.uh.edu/cwp/faculty/phillip..., retrieved 11 May 2007.]

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Reviews

[Jade · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've only read one of his poems "The Panic Bird" and it hit home pretty good-although I do have much better control of my anxiety than when I was younger, I still have a couple a year and this poem spoke to me. I think it's in this book.

[Mills College Library]

811.54 P5629r 1981