Background
Sterling, Phillip Duncan was born on November 10, 1950 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Son of James Foster and Barbara Jane Sterling.
(The poems of Mutual Shores are delivered by one voice, bu...)
The poems of Mutual Shores are delivered by one voice, but that voice has the tenor of many. Sterling is a poet straightforward in language and tone yet charmingly deceitful in subject--he draws an idea from the natural world then nurtures it, watches it grow. What results is a furthering of the human experience, a relativity that makes random the Chain of Being and leaves us where "the rain evokes / no patron saint and only a small green lizard / offers hope." Sterling, from his singular vantage-point somewhere between the ground and the sky, says to us all "This is what you should have seen.
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Sterling, Phillip Duncan was born on November 10, 1950 in Pontiac, Michigan, United States. Son of James Foster and Barbara Jane Sterling.
Bachelor, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, 1972. Master of Arts, Central Michigan University, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University, 1979.
From assistant professor Keuka College, Keuka Park, 1979—1985, associate professor, 1985—1987. Professor English Ferris State University, Big Rapids, since 1987. Senior Fulbright lecturer Council for International Exchange Scholars, Belgium, 1992-1993, Poland, 1997-1998.
(The poems of Mutual Shores are delivered by one voice, bu...)
Member Poetry Society of America, Academy American Poets, Poets and Writers, Association Writers and Writing Programs (board directors), Fulbright Association (life).
Married Debra Jean Stack, December 7, 1974 (divorced August 1998). Children: Matthew, Rachel, Sarah, Andrew. Married Kaye Lynn Longberg, February 8, 2005(divorced December 2007).
1 child, Graham.