Phillip Barron is an American poet and philosopher who teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
[1] His poetry has won the Nicolás Guillén Outstanding Book Award[2] for philosophical literature and has been featured in many national journals including The Brooklyn Rail,[3] New American Writing,[4] and Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts.
[6][7] What Comes from a Thing has been described by reviewers as "a masterpiece of phenomenological description in which poetry is not application or a technique for profundity but instead at the heart of philosophical/poetic evocation"[8] and as "laments of postindustrial despair, isolation, and ecological ruin.
[12] He is a member of the Community of Writers poetry workshop, and he edited the 2012 issue of the Squaw Valley Review.
[13] Barron has been cited as an expert on sexism and capital punishment[14][15][16] for a 2000 article titled "Gender Discrimination in the US Death Penalty System".