Philip Metres

Philip Metres

man standing at lectern reading

at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University, 2016
Born 1970
San Diego
Alma mater Holy Cross College,
Indiana University at Bloomington
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Lannan Literary Fellowship,
two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
Spouse Amy Breau

Philip J. Metres III (born 1970 in San Diego, California and raised in Lincolnshire, Illinois) is an award-winning American poet, translator, scholar, and activist.

His most recent poetry books include Pictures at an Exhibition, Sand Opera and A Concordance of Leaves. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Poetry,[1] New England Review, Tin House,[2] Ploughshares, New American Writing, Massachusetts Review, Field, 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).

Honors

Metres’ honors include a Lannan Literary Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two Arab American Book Awards in poetry, the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, six Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Anne Halley Prize for best poem by Massachusetts Review (2012), the Cleveland Arts Prize (Emerging Artist) (2010),[8] 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 COPRED/OMNI 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 and Lev Rubinstein.

Life

After Metres received a B.A. magna cum laude from Holy Cross College, he went on to earn an M.A. (English), M.F.A. (poetry) and Ph.D. (English) at Indiana University at Bloomington. He is currently a professor of English at John Carroll University.[9] Metres blogs frequently and teaches issues related to nonviolent resistance to war and racism in the United States, Middle East, and Northern Ireland.[10][11] 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 award-winning 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).

Published Works

Full-Length Poetry Collections (Original Poems and Translations)

Criticism

Poetry Chapbooks

Anthologies Edited

Honors and Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Philip Metres". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  2. ↑ Tin House. "Trash: Issue #13, Fall 2002". Tin House. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  3. ↑ "Poets for Living Waters: Three Poems by Philip Metres.". Poets Gulf Coast. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Third Factory/Notes to Poetry: Attention Span 2011 – Philip Metres.". Third Factory. 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. "Review: 'I Go to the Ruined Place'". Foreign Policy in Focus. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  8. ↑ Patton, Susan Ruiz. "Phil Metres, Poet: 2010 Emerging Artist Award for Literature". Cleveland Arts Prize. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  9. ↑ "Phil Metres". RateMyProfessors.com. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  10. ↑ "Philip Metres: The Poet Who Imagines Peace.". Voices Education Project. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  11. ↑ "Phil Metres Reads at His Poetry". Literary Cafe. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
  12. ↑ "Instants by Philip Metres.". Ugly Duckling Presse. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
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