Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the author of To See the Earth (poetry, 2008), Come Together: Imagine Peace (anthology of peace poems, 2008), Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (criticism, 2007), Instants (chapter, 2006), Primer for Non-Native Speakers (chapter, 2004), Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein (2004), and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2003).

His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry. See www.philipmetres.com and behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com for more information.

pmetres@jcu.edu