Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James Books, 2015), and four volumes of poetry in translation; the most recent, I BURNED AT THE FEAST: SELECTED POEMS OF ARSENY TARKOVSKY (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015), won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Award, the Read...See more

Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James Books, 2015), and four volumes of poetry in translation; the most recent, I BURNED AT THE FEAST: SELECTED POEMS OF ARSENY TARKOVSKY (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015), won a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Award, the Read Russia Prize, and was longlisted for the National Translation Award. His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. Recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and the Hunt Prize, Metres has been called "one of the essential poets of our time," whose work is "beautiful, powerful, and magnetically original." He is Professor of English and Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. See less