Philip C. Kolin is the Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus and Editor Emeritus of the Southern Quarterly at the University of Southern Mississippi. He has published over forty books on Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, and African American playwrights including fifteen collections of poems. Among these are Reading God's Handwriting (Kaufmann Publishing, 2012); Departures: Poems (Negative Capability Press, 2014); Reaching Forever: Poems (Poiema Series, Cascade Books, 2019); Delta Tears: Poems (Main Street Rag, 2020); and Americorona: Poems about the Pandemic (Wipf and Stock, 2021). He has also published two books of poems about Civil Rights: Emmett Till in Different States: Poems (Third World Press, 2015) and White Terror, Black Trauma: Resistance Poems about Black History (Third World Press, 2023). And he has co-edited three anthologies of eco-poems on Katrina, the Mississippi River, and about the moon. His poems have appeared in Agape, African American Review, America Magazine, Catholic Poetry Room, Christianity and Literature, Christian Century, Ekstasis, ISLE, Amethyst, Michigan Quarterly Review, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, St. Austin Review, St. Katherine Review, Spiritus, Sojourners, U.S. Catholic, The Windhover, etc.
