Poetry Night with Phillip Carroll Morgan

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Join us Thursday, February 9th @ 5:30PM at McAlester Public Library! Our featured reader will be Phillip Carroll Morgan. Morgan (Choctaw-Chickasaw) debuted on the First American literary scene with “The Fork-in-the-Road Indian Poetry Store”, which won the Native Writers Circle of the Americas First Book Award for Poetry in 2002. The Fork was published in 2006 by Salt Publishing in Cambridge, England.

Morgan has since authored several award-winning titles including “Anompolichi: The Wordmaster”, the first novel published by White Dog Press in 2014. In 2022, White Dog Press published the sequel Wordmaster novel, “The Lost River”. His other Chickasaw Press titles include “Chickasaw Renaissance” (2010), “Dynamic Chickasaw Women” (2011) and “Riding Out the Storm: 19th Century Chickasaw Governors and Their Intellectual Legacy” (2013).

Morgan holds a doctorate in English from the University of Oklahoma and specializes in Native American literature. He has contributed recently to “Famine Pots, The Choctaw-Irish Gift Exchange”, published in 2020 by the Michigan State University Press. “Famine Pots” is the cooperative work of Irish scholars and First American scholars, similar in scope to his work which was published by OU Press in 2008. In this earlier book, he worked with 11 other indigenous American and Canadian scholars to coauthor “Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective”