Living Weapon

Phillips’ latest poetry collection speaks to our dangerous and difficult political moment. An imaginative work, Living Weapon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) lyrically explores pain and joy, indictment and survival, all while revealing the limitations of our vocabulary to express our world.

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The January 2026 cover of PAW, featuring a man and a woman and the headline "Empower Couple."
The Latest Issue

January 2026

Giving big with Kwanza Jones ’93 and José E. Feliciano ’94; Elizabeth Tsurkov freed; small town wonderers.