Philip Metres

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Philip Metres
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Metres in 2016
Born (1970-07-04) July 4, 1970 (age 54)
San Diego, California, U.S.
Alma mater College of the Holy Cross (BA)
Indiana University Bloomington (MA, MFA, PhD)
GenrePoetry
SpouseAmy Breau

Philip Metres (born July 4, 1970) is an American writer, poet, translator, scholar, and essayist.

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His poetry books include Fugitive/Refuge, Shrapnel Maps, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Sand Opera. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Poetry, [1] American Poetry Review, New England Review, Tin House, [2] Ploughshares, New American Writing, Massachusetts Review, and others. [3] [4] [5] His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry; The New American Poetry of Engagement; With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century; [6] A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (2011); I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (2009); [7] and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry (2008).

Biography

Metres was born in July 4, 1970, in San Diego and grew up in Chicago. [8] After receiving a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), magna cum laude , from the College of the Holy Cross, he went on to earn an M.A. (English), M.F.A. (poetry), and Ph.D. (English) from Indiana University at Bloomington. [9] He is currently a professor of English and Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University [10] and is core faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts M.F.A. program.

In 2019, Metres was a faculty member at the 2019 Conference on Poetry at The Frost Place. He teaches issues related to nonviolent resistance and peacebuilding in the United States, Middle East, and Northern Ireland. [11] [12] Of Lebanese descent on his father's side, Metres plays a role in the Arab-American literary scene. Metres currently resides in Cleveland, Ohio with his wife, the writer Amy Breau, and their two daughters. His family of origin includes psychologists Kay Dannemann Metres (mother) and Phil Metres Jr. (father), entrepreneur Katherine Metres (sister), and attorney David Metres (brother).

Honors

Metres' honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, three Arab American Book Awards in poetry, the William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, eight Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry (2019), the Lyric Poetry Prize (2016), the Anne Halley Prize for best poem by Massachusetts Review (2012), the Cleveland Arts Prize (Emerging Artist) (2010), [13] Jury Prize for To See the Earth (Lit's Literary Showcase, 2008), Twin Cranes Peace Poem Prize; "For the Fifty Who Formed PEACE with Their Bodies," and a National Endowment of the Arts fellowship (2001).

His first book, Behind the Lines, received the International PeaceWriting Award. During his Thomas J. Watson Fellowship (1992–93), he began to translate contemporary Russian poetry, and he has since published numerous translations of the poetry of Sergey Gandlevsky, Lev Rubinstein, and Arseny Tarkovsky.

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections (Original Poems and Translations)

Criticism

Poetry Chapbooks

Anthologies Edited

In Anthology

List of honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Philip Metres". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Tin House. "Trash: Issue #13, Fall 2002". Tin House. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "Poets for Living Waters: Three Poems by Philip Metres". Poets Gulf Coast. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Third Factory/Notes to Poetry: Attention Span 2011 – Philip Metres". Third Factory. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  5. ↑ Metres, Phil. "Baby Weight". Cleveland Magazine. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Hix, H.L. "Philip Metres' Answers" . Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  7. ↑ Gregory, Alicia (16 July 2010). "Review: 'I Go to the Ruined Place'". Foreign Policy in Focus. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Poets, Academy of American. "About Philip Metres | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  9. ↑ "Philip Metres". Vermont College of Fine Arts. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
  10. ↑ "Phil Metres". RateMyProfessors.com. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  11. ↑ "Philip Metres: The Poet Who Imagines Peace". Voices Education Project. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "Phil Metres Reads at His Poetry". Literary Cafe. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  13. ↑ Patton, Susan Ruiz. "Phil Metres, Poet: 2010 Emerging Artist Award for Literature". Cleveland Arts Prize. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  14. ↑ "Instants by Philip Metres". Ugly Duckling Presse. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  15. ↑ "Flying Guillotine Press: abu ghraib arias by Philip Metres". flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-13.
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