Xandria Phillips has published poems in the shade journal, American Poetry Review, Scalawag and the Virginia Poetry Review.  Phillips’s debut poetry collection, “Hull,” explores emotional impacts of colonialism and racism on the Black queer body and the present-day emotional impacts of enslavement in urban, rural, and international settings.  A University of Wisconsin First Wave Poetry Scholar, Phillips is also an accomplished visual artist.  Xandria joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on October 7th, 2019.