Winter play turns sharp
Paring windburned skin from stone
In the June-melt creek

Phillip Barron is a poet, writer, and award winning digital media artist. He has taught philosophy at the University of North Carolina and now teaches poetry and digital humanities at the University of California, Davis. Barron is co-editor of the journal OccuPoetry and editor of The Squaw Valley Review. His poems appear online and in print.

Other writing appears in Inside Higher Ed, Radical Philosophy Review, and Urban Velo among other journals, and his photography and digital art have shown in galleries in Durham, North Carolina and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and lives in Davis, California.

He previously worked as a digital media specialist at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, where among other things he was managing editor of the On the Human project and coordinated the institutional collaboration that made The Soundings Project possible.