Of Poetry is hosted by Han VanderHart, author of Larks (Ohio UP, 2025).
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Read: Book X and Book VII from "The Queerness of Eve"

Purchase: Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (University of Akron Press, 2024)

Emilia Phillips (they/them) is a poet, nonfiction writer, and book reviewer. They are the author of five poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, including Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (forthcoming February 2024) and Embouchure (2021), and four chapbooks. Winner of a 2019 Pushcart Prize, 2015 StoryQuarterly Nonfiction Prize, and the 2012 The Journal Poetry Prize, Phillips’s poems, lyric essays, and book reviews appear widely in literary publications including The Adroit Journal, Agni, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. They are an Associate Professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English; MFA in Writing Program; and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UNC Greensboro, where they regularly teach MFA- and undergraduate-level poetry workshops, Queer Poetry & Poetics, and Women’s Health & Bodies. 

Recommended Reading:

Linda Gregerson

Jenny Johnson — "Fisting Party" (Cortland Review), "Bottoms" (APR)

Donika Kelly -- "On What Gay Porn Has Done For Me"

Destiny O Birdsong - "what lesbian porn has done for me" (PoFo)

Xan Phillips - "Want Could Kill Me"

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Ari Banias

Chen Chen