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Rumpus Original Poetry: Three Poems by Emilia Phillips

October 10th, 2019

A thumb makes a perfect / bruise, don’t you think?

Emilia Phillips (she/her/hers) is the author of three poetry collections from the University of Akron Press, most recently Empty Clip (2018), and four chapbooks, including Hemlock (Diode Editions, 2019). Her poems and lyric essays appear widely in literary publications including Agni, American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, and elsewhere. She’s an assistant professor in the MFA Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.