p. c. scearce

Phillip Calvert Scearce (aka. P. C. Scearce) is originally from Danville, Virginia where he earned his B.A. in English from Averett College (now Averett University) and was awarded first and second place in their poetry contest as well as named 1994's Distinguished English Major of his graduating class. Afterward, he moved to Washington, DC with a scholarship award to George Mason University's Masters in Fine Arts in Poetry Program.

His work has appeared in HIV Here & Now: World AIDS Day, December 1, 2018 blog, Screen Door Review, Euantes, and Ember as well as two compilations from Averett College: The 1993 Poets, and The 1994 Poets, and is featured in Super Stoked: An Anthology of Queer Poets from Capturing Fire Press edited by Regie Cabico in 2018. He is nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2019.

He has work forthcoming in the 2019 anthology Lovejets: Queer Male Poets on 200 Years of Walt Whitman edited by Raymond Luczak, and has a forthcoming collection of poetry, Among the Confessional Relics due out in early Summer from Poetblu Publications, and a revision of the poem "god in flight' (1995 to 2019), the title work from his first collection god in flight published in 2003 along with a few notable poems from the original collection and a few others that expound about the search for Queer love in the urban cityscape.

He continues to live in DC now for twenty-four years where he is a disabled retiree cohabiting with his two cats and continues to write poems.