Philip Metres

Philip Metres has written ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (2020) and The Sound of Listening (2018). Awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and three Arab American Book Awards, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.

Lost in the Underground Cathedral

November 2022
Philip Metres

Interior of Arbatskaya subway station in Moscow, Russia A woman sweeping the Moscow metro with a twig broom, a violinist playing a Beatles tune, and Chekhov: Philip Metres reflects on his...
Poetry as Untelling: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

June 28, 2021 | Philip Metres

Earlier this spring, the editors of WLT invited twenty-one writers to nominate a single book, published since the year 2000, that has had a major influence on their own work, along with...
Our Revenge Will Be the Laughter of Our Children

Winter 2021
Philip Metres

Bobby Sands mural on gable wall of Sinn Fein offices on Falls Road, Belfast./ Photo by Shermozle / Wikimedia What is it about the revolutionary that draws our fascinated attention? Whether...
Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres

Autumn 2020
Philip Metres

Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press. 2020. 94 pages. PHILIP METRES’S SHRAPNEL MAPS is an impressive work of listening, learning, and journeying into the trauma of...
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance by Philip Metres

Winter 2019
Philip Metres

Ann Arbor. University of Michigan Press. 2018. 216 pages. As director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, Philip Metres might be expected to champion political...
In the Den of the Voice

September 2018
Philip Metres

An overgrown yard at a factory where statues of Lenin and other Soviet leaders used to be made. Photo: Philip Metres In the Den of the Voice” is part of The More You Love the Motherland...