title: Dennis Phillips (poet)
text: # Dennis Phillips (poet)
  
  Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is an American poet & novelist. He is the author of A World (1989), Arena(1991), Book of Hours (1996), Credence (1996), and Sand (2002), among other works of poetry, as well as the novel Hope (2007).
  
  ## Life
  
  Phillips attended the California Institute of the Arts, where he studied with Clayton Eshleman. He then attended graduate school at New York University. He is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena,
  
  He co-edited the poetry-section of the New Review of Literature, was a founding editor of Littoral Books, the first Book Review Editor of the magazine Sulfur and the L.A. Weekly's first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center.
  
  ## Family
  
  He lives in Pasadena, with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.
  
  ## Selected bibliography
  
  * The Hero Is Nothing, Kajun Press, San Francisco (1985)
  * A World, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1989)
  * Arena, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1991)
  * Means, Parenthesis Writing Series, San Diego (1991)
  * 20 Questions, Jahbone Press, Los Angeles (1991)
  * Book of Hours, ML NLF, Piacenza, Italy (1996)
  * Credence, Sun and Moon Press, Los Angeles (1996)
  * Study for the Ideal City, Seeing Eye Books. Los Angeles (1999)
  * Sand, Green Integer, Los Angeles (2002)
  * Hope, (A Novel) Green Integer, Los Angeles (2007)
  * "Preface" (by Dennis Phillips), Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman, edited by Stephen Motika (Afterword by Bill Mohr), Nightboat Books, 2009.
  * "Study for the Possibilities of Hope," Pie in the Sky Press, Los Angeles (2010)
  * "Navigation: Selected poems 1985 - 2010," Seismicity Editions. (Afterword by George Albon.) Los Angeles (2011)
  * "Sophia's Lament," Ninja Press, Los Angeles (2012)
  * "Measures," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2013)
  * "Mappa Mundi," Talisman House Publishers, Greenfield, MA (2019)
  