Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide
“Poetry’s belatedness hauntingly echoes international law’s belatedness when it comes to defining genocide.”
April 9, 2024
By Philip Metres
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Philip Metres
Philip Metres is the author of Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2023), Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening (2018), Sand Opera (2015), and other books. His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, NEA, and the Ohio Arts Council. He has received the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and Core Faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today
Phillip Metres on Political Literature, Classical Forms, and What Outsiders Get Wrong About Russian Poetry
October 10, 2023
By Philip Metres
The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa
Philip Metres Considers the Borders Between the Earthly and the Divine
October 13, 2022
By Philip Metres
The Wall of Silence: On Trying to Talk About Palestine, Israel, and the USA
Philip Metres Seeks Unoccupied Spaces for Conversation
February 3, 2021
By Philip Metres
The Beggars of Beirut
A Poem by Philip Metres
August 11, 2020
By Philip Metres
To Be the Poet of Troy:
An Interview with Mosab Abu Toha by Philip Metres
On Starting the Edward Said Library in the Gaza Strip
July 22, 2020
By Philip Metres
A Poem by Philip Metres
From Shrapnel Maps
April 24, 2020
By Philip Metres
To Expand the Moral Imagination in the Confines of Quarantine
Philip Metres Writes a Letter to His Students
March 30, 2020
By Philip Metres
The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Philip Metres on Patrick Radden Keefe's Say Anything, and the Stories of the Living
November 14, 2019
By Philip Metres
On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time
Philip Metres Reveals His Family Connections to Khalil Gibran, Poet of 'The Prophet'
September 17, 2018
By Philip Metres
Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War
Philip Metres Offers a Brief History of Imperial Dementia
March 20, 2018
By Philip Metres
Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later
On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America
January 23, 2018
By Philip Metres
