In this installment of the Stadler Center’s Writers in Conversation series, returning Stadler Fellow Joshua Garcia (2021-22) discusses poetry, spirituality, and queerness with award-winning poets Carl Phillips and Spencer Reese. Carl Phillips has authored a dozen books of poetry, most recently Pale Colors in a Tall Field (2020), and two works of criticism. He was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2006 and has served as judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets since 2011. His many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Library of Congress, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and he has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Poet and Episcopal priest Spencer Reece is most recently the author of a memoir, The Secret Gospel of Mark (2021). His debut collection of poetry, The Clerk’s Tale (2004) was selected by Louise Gluck for the Bakeless Poetry Prize, and his second collection, The Road to Emmaus (2013), was longlisted for the National Book Award. Among his honors are Guggenheim, Witter Bynner, and NEA fellowships and Whiting Writers’ Award. Joshua Garcia was the 2021-22 Stadler Fellow in Literary Editing. Hispoetry appears in Arts & Letters, Image, The Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. He earned his MFA from the College of Charleston..