The Poetics of Peace and Justice with Philip Metres

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | The Poetics of Peace and Justice: exploring how poets and poems can dialogue with and contribute to the conversation that is a social movement, whether for justice, peace, or both.

Philip Metres has published multiple books, including the poetry volumes Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and To See the Earth (Cleveland State, 2008); the critical studies The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018) and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (University of Iowa, 2007); and translations of Russian poets Arseny Tarkovsky, Lev Rubinstein, and Sergey Gandlevsky. His work has garnered a Lannan Foundation fellowship, two NEA fellowships, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize from the Poetry Society of America, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.

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