Phillip T. Nails

Phillip T. Nails in his most recent stint for Sacramento Advocacy spent four years as a legislative assistant advocating for children’s health and safety issues. His love of the arts kept him from becoming a full on lobbyist for issues that were not completely his passion. A high school actor until he Saw B.L. Kennedy read poetry at his school which changed his life! In the bay area Phillip has been performing poetry and theatre for the past ten years. He helps organize and facilitate the Berkeley Poetry. He has organized many literary events as well as mc’d several ongoing poetry and performance series including Poetry at the Cosmo for Art Work SF, McKinnley Solutions, Notes from Underground and currently, The Red Light Open Mic at Amnesia Bar in the Mission District. Phillip has taught poetry, performance and theatre both here in California fro the Sacramento Poetry Center and in New York State at the Omega Institute. His work has been both published (Sexological Asylum, 2000 and My woman is a Tree or Leaves Shaped Like Your Ass, 2005) and recorded (Echoes From the Sexological Asylum: Live Poems, 2008 (which was recorded in my living room)) and his most recent work has been in collaboration with Elisabeth Millican. Their work has earned them awards for writing and execution of performance. He also collaborates woth his partner Elisabeth Millican