Obsolescence

Lance Phillips was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1970. He grew up in many places. He attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte for his BA in English and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for his MFA in poetry. He has published four books of poetry, Corpus Socius, Cur aliquid vidi, These Indicium Tales, and Mimer with Ahsahta Press, and a fifth book of poetry, Devil-Fictions, is available from BlazeVOX Books. His poems have appeared in New American Writing, Volt, Fence, Colorado Review, Slope, Verse, Denver Quarterly, Bennington Review, Bombay Gin, The Tiny, The Elephants, and Fourteen Hills. His work has been anthologized in The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing Anthology, Lenoir-Rhyne University’s tribute to Black Mountain College, Far From the Centers of Ambition anthology, and Fence Magazine’s A Best Of Fence: The First Nine Years.