Patrick Phillips’s third collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2015. A recent Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he is the author of two earlier collections, Boy and Chattahoochee. His work has appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The Nation, and his honors include the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America. He lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Drew University. (updated 9/2015)

Read Nicky Beer’s conversation with Patrick Phillips and David Keplinger.