- Sponsor
- Department of English, Creative Writing Program, and the Robert J. and Katherin Carr Visiting Author Series.
- Originating Calendar
- Arabic Studies Program Event Calendar
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).
His work has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. His awards include 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.
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.