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Philip Metres, Ph.D.

Professor - English

Director Peace, Justice and Human Rights - Interdisciplinary Programs

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eMail

pmetres@jcu.edu

Phone Number - English

216-397-4528

Phone Number - Interdisciplinary Programs

216-397-4528

Location - English

O'Malley Center 243

Location - Interdisciplinary Programs

O'Malley Center 243

Personal Websites

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Expertise:ÌýAmerican poetry, creative writing, translation, literature of war and peace, peacebuilding

Philip Metres is the author and translator of a number of books and chapbooks, including (Copper Canyon 2020), (2018),ÌýPictures at an ExhibitionÌý(University of Akron 2016), winner of the Akron Poetry Prize; Sand Opera (Alice James 2015), which received the honorable mention for the Arab American Book Award) I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny TarkovskyÌý(Cleveland State Poetry Center, 2015), shortlisted for the PEN Translation Award and the Read Russia Prize; Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Poetic Texts of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly Duckling Presse 2014), which was longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award; A Concordance of Leaves (Diode 2013) and abu ghraib ariasÌý(Flying Guillotine 2011), each of which won the Arab American Book Award To See the Earth (Cleveland State 2008); and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941(University of Iowa 2007). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, numerous journals and anthologies, and has garnered two NEA fellowships, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lannan Fellowship, the George S. Hunt, S.J. Prize, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Anne Halley Prize, the PEN/Heim Translation grant, a Russian Institute for Literary Translation grant, and the Creative Workforce Fellowship.ÌýHeÌýis professor of English and the director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Program at °ÅÀÖ´óÈË°æappÔ¼ÅÚ in Cleveland.

Degrees

  • M.F.A. and Ph.D., Indiana University

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