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""Like stepping into a cool arbor from a scorching world, you enter—with sweet relief—the confiding, meditative, calming space of Daye Phillippo's Blue Between Owls, where 'A breeze sifts the feathery locust leaves/ the way the mind sifts memory, tenderly.' Hers is a cadenced, crafted language of deep composure; of value conferred by time, use. and sensitive attention; of kinship with even 'the sun, that old dog'—a world where 'one thing / becoming another / is just the way of things…'"" — Eleanor Wilner, Chancellor, Academy of American Poets ""Daye Phillippo tends to her poems with the same precision she uses to tend chickens and tough barn cats. At the same time, she stays attentive to what lies beyond the periphery, especially coyotes that announce themselves loudly, sometimes leaving tracks alarmingly close to the house. Other tracks are more benign, proclaiming 'this is the small weight of a snowbird in winter / Of no great import, but making its momentary mark / as we all hope to do.' A hope that Phillippo realizes in this work."" — John Minszeski, author of A Letter to Serafin

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Daye Phillippo says she's lived her life backwards, first raising a large family and later earning degrees in Creative Writing from Purdue University (2011) and Warren Wilson MFA for Writers (2014). She is the recipient of a Mortarboard Fellowship, an Elizabeth George Grant for work in progress, and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship for poetry. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Educational Testing Services for inclusion in the AP English exam. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Valparaiso Poetry Review, The Midwest Quarterly, LETTERS, Shenandoah, Cider Press Review, One Art, Natural Bridge, Presence, The Windhover, and many others. She taught English at Purdue University and now hosts a Poetry Hour at her local library at which Katniss, the library cat, is also a welcomed guest. Phillippo lives with her husband in a creaky old farmhouse in rural Indiana, where she tends a garden and a lively flock of Barred Rock hens. Thunderhead, her debut collection of poems, was published by Slant in 2020. Her second collection, Blue Between Owls, won the 2024 Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award.

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