Philip Metres
Professor
Background
Philip Metres is a poet, scholar, translator, essayist, and peacebuilder. He is the author of thirteen books, including Fugitive/Refuge (2024), Ochre and Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2023), Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), and Sand Opera (2015).
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\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. He has been awarded the William Carlos Williams Award, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Hunt Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.”
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\His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, French, Polish, Russian, Spanish, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.
Areas of Expertise
\ Creative Writing, Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Literature and Social Justice, Israeli and Palestinian Literatures, Peacebuilding, Irish Literature, Russian Literature, Translation.\
Research Interests
\ CURRENT RESEARCH/WRITING PROJECTS
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\ And What Would You Say With My Body. New poems.\
\ The Olive Tree Necklace: A Theatrical Adaptation of Shrapnel Maps. Collaboration with Eric Schmiedl. In development\
\\\ Peace is Another Country: Stories of Northern Ireland. Research and writing.\
\\\ The More You Love the Motherland. Memoir. Life in Russia and in Russian Poetry. Revising.\
\\\ From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Conversations with Russian Poets after the Fall. Archive of Interviews.\
Education
M.F.A. and Ph.D., Indiana UniversityCourses Taught
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- \ EN 1250 First Year Writing\ \
- \ HP1010 The Life of the Mind: Honors First Year Writing\ \
- \ EN 277 Major American Writers (Survey of American Literature)\ \
- \ EN 2080 Israeli and Palestinian Literatures (EGC new core, PJHR)\ \
- \ EN 2280 Irish Literature and Film (EGC, PJHR)\ \
- \ EN 1310 Introduction to Creative Writing Workshop Poetry (CAPA)\ \
- \ EN 1330 Introduction to Creative Writing (Poetry, Fiction, Non-Fiction) (CAPA)\ \
- \ EN 4010 Advanced Creative Writing (Poetry)\ \
- \ EN 4030 Capstone Creative Writing\ \
- \ EN 480 Studies in Postcolonial Literature\ \
- \ EN 482 Contemporary American Poetry: Mainstream and Experimental\ \
- \ EN 482 Confessional Poetry (Lowell, Plath, Ginsberg)\ \
Publications
\ Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2025.\
\\\ Fugitive/Refuge. Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2024.\
\\\ Ochre and Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. Translation. Grinnell, Iowa: Green Linden, 2023.\
\\\ Shrapnel Maps. Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2020.\
\\\ The Sound of Listening. Essays. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2018.\
\\\ Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album. Poems. Akron, OH: University of Akron Press. 2016.\
\\\ Sand Opera. Poems. Farmington, ME: Alice James, 2015.\
\\\ I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky. Translation. Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2015.\
\\\ Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Poetic Texts of Lev Rubinstein. Translation. Brooklyn, NY: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014.\
\\\ To See the Earth. Poems. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Press, 2008.
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\ Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront. Iowa City: U of Iowa Press, 2007.\
\ Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein. Translation. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2004.\
\\\ A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. Translation by Philip Metres. Boston, MA: Zephyr Press, 2003.\
