Pilsen Snow: Poems by Philip C. Kolin

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Pilsen Snow: Poems

by Philip C. Kolin

$14.49, paper

Kolin was born in Chicago and earned his BA at Chicago State University.  He earned his master’s degree from the University of Chicago and his doctoral degree from Northwestern University.

Kolin served as professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg for 41 years.  He is now professor emeritus.   In 2010 he was awarded Distinguished Professor in the College of Arts and Letters. Kolin also serves on the advisory board of  the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. He has published more than forty books, including eight collections of poetry. Many of Kolin’s poems, influenced by his Roman Catholicism, explore the Gulf South as well as focus on civil rights, especially the murder of Emmett Till.

He has also published a widely-used business writing textbook, Successful Writing at Work.  He is an authority on the life and plays of Tennessee Williams. He is an editor for The Southern Quarterly and a general editor for the Routledge Shakespeare Criticism series.

His most recent books of poems include Pilsen Snow: Poems (a chapbook published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press), Down to the Dark River: Poems about the Mississippi (2015),  co-edited with Jack Bedell for Louisiana Literature Press, and Departures (2014).  His most recent book, commemorating the 60th anniverary of Emmett Till’s death, is entitled Emmett Till in Different States: Poems (2015))