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]
Phillip Barron
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| Occupation | Poet, Professor |
| Nationality | American |
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| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | 2019 Nicolas Guillen Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association |
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]
Bright Leaf (Horse and Buggy Press, 2022)[22]
What Comes from a Thing (Fourteen Hills Press, 2015)[23]
The Outspokin' Cyclist (Avenida Books, 2011)[24]