Louis Phillips (author)


Louis Phillips is an American poet, playwright, editor, and author of children's stories.
Phillips was born on June 15, 1942, in Lowell, Massachusetts. He received a BA from Stetson University in 1964, and MAs from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and CUNY in 1965 and 1967, respectively. Since 1977 he has served as professor of humanities at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he teaches creative writing.
Phillips has authored or co-authored around fifty books for children and adults, including five collections of short stories and several volumes of poetry. He is the editor of two Random House poetry anthologies, The Random House Treasury of Best Loved Poems and The Random House Treasury of Light Verse. He was a joint winner of a 1984 Swallow's Tale Press poetry award, and was the featured poet in the Spring/Summer 2011 issue of Light Quarterly.
His full-length plays have been performed in various New York City and American regional theatres, and his one-act plays have appeared in Aethlon, The Massachusetts Review, and The Georgia Review.
He is the brother-in-law of John Ranard, photographer.

Short stories

  • A Dream of Countries Where No One Dare Live
  • The Bus to the Moon and Other Stories
  • The Woman Who Wrote King Lear, and Other Stories
  • Fireworks in Some Particulars and Other Writings
  • Must I Weep for The Dancing Bear """"""..

Plays

  • The Envoi Messages
  • The Ballroom in St. Patrick's Cathedral
  • The Great American Quiz Show Scandal
  • Sixteen Points on a Hurricane's Compass
  • Frankenstein Virtuoso
  • Kops
  • Wabeck
  • Goin' West
  • The Man who Ate Einstein's Brain
  • Tierra del Fuego, Staged Reading by the Viking Theater Company at the Arthur Seelen Theatre, The Drama Book Store, 2007
  • Narragansett 1937, Staged Reading by the Viking Theater Company produced at the Salmagundi Art Club, 2013
  • God Have Mercy on the June Bug", Staged Reading by the Viking Theater Company at the Neighborhood Playhouse, 2007

Poetry

  • R.I.P.: A Poetic Sequence
  • The Krazy Cat Rag
  • Bulkington
  • The Time, The Hour, The Solitariness of The Place
  • Celebrations and Bewilderments
  • Quick Flicks: Clerihews by Louis Phillips
  • Into the Well of Knowingness
  • In the Field of Broken Hearts
  • Afterheat
  • Amid Things Visible
  • Landscape with Three Human Figures
  • Memoirs of a Pin-ball Mechanic
  • That More Things Move Poems
  • The Applesauce Chronicles, Volume 1
  • Quick Flicks #5: Lives of the Famous, the Infamous, and the Nearly Unknown
  • Radio Station WGOD is on the Air
  • Boundaries
  • The Emancipation of the Encyclopedia Salesman
  • How Wide the Meadow,
  • ''Meadow surprises''

Edited anthologies

  • The Random House Treasury of Best Loved Poems
  • ''The Random House Treasury of Light Verse''

Other

  • Hot Corner: Baseball Stories & Writing & Humo
  • The Man Who Stole The Atlantic Ocean
  • The Million Dollar Potato
  • Alligator Wrestling and You: An Impractical Guide to an Impossible Sport
  • Gertrude Stein in Dayton & Other Plays
  • American Elegies
  • Late Night in The Rain Forest
  • Little Known Facts About Well-Known People
  • Funky Facts
  • The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations
  • The Kilroy Sonata
  • Sex: "The Most Fun You Can Have Without Laughing" …and Other Quotations
  • Sex: Even More Fun You Can Have Without Laughing
  • 263 Brain Busters: Just How Smart Are You, Anyway?
  • Haunted House Jokes
  • How Do You Get a Horse out of the Bathtub?
  • The Brothers Wrong and Wrong Again
  • The Most Challenging Quiz Book Ever
  • Ask Me Anything About the Presidents
  • The Latin Riddle Book: Aenigmatorum Liber Latinorum
  • Monster Riddles
  • The Animated Thumbtack Railroad Dollhouse & All-around Surprise Book, Evening Edition
  • Wackysaurus: Dinosaur Jokes
  • The TV Almanac
  • Yogi, Babe, and Magic: The Complete Book of Sports Nicknames
  • Going Ape: Jokes from the Jungle
  • Keep 'Em Laughing
  • Willie Shoemaker
  • Theodore Jonathan Wainwright Is Going To Bomb The Pentagon: A Comic Novella
  • 505 Movie Questions Your Friends Can't Answer
  • Ask Me Anything About Baseball
  • Ask Me Anything About Dinosaurs
  • Ask Me Anything About Monsters
  • Freaky Facts
  • Baseball: Records, Stars, Feats, and Facts
  • Football: Records, Stars, Feats, and Facts
  • Women in Sports: Records, Stars, Feats, and Facts
  • How Do You Lift a Walrus With One Hand?
  • Invisible Oink
  • School Daze: Jokes Your Teacher Will Hate
  • Way Out!: Jokes from Outer Space
  • Louis Phillips's Loose Leaf: The Wackiest School Notebook Yet
  • The Official Funnybones Flaky Dictionary
  • Oops!
  • What's Gnu?
  • ''The World by Sevens: A Kid's Book of Lists''
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