Dennis Phillips (poet)

'Dennis Phillips (born 1951) is a U.S. 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). 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. Weeklys first poetry-editor, as well as a director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Phillips is a professor in the Humanities and Science Department at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, the city where he lives with his wife, artist Courtney Gregg, and their daughter.