RECENT NEWS: I was recently awarded the 2010 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist. The jury called my work "beautiful, powerful, and magnetically original." Here's a clip. Check out the new "Poetry in the Everyday" projects by some of my students. In these projects, students bring poems off the page and into the world--as broadsides, as dance, as video mashups, as songs. I've entered the blogosphere, at http://www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com. On the blog, I extend the arguments in Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007) in an approachable prose format. I post reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; shameless self-promotions; links to political commentary (particularly on conflicts in the Middle East); youtubed performances of music, demos, and other audio-video nuggets dealing with peaceful change, dissent and resistance. Here's an article about the blog. To See the Earth, from Cleveland State, was awarded a jury prize from The Lit (2008). Here's a link to our co-edited an anthology of peace poetry, Come Together: Imagine Peace (2008), partly a companion to Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007). A piece in Cleveland Magazine (May 2008) called "Gray Matters," on documentary poetry. Listen to this Poetry Foundation podcast on documentary poetry. Check out my recent article on poetry in public spaces, called "Lang/scapes: Further Investigations of War Resistance Poetry in Public Spaces." Check out this recent interview about Behind the Lines on BlogTalk Radio. Listen to stories recorded by my students and me at the Peace Show 2007, an annual celebration of area peacegroups and peacemaking in Cleveland. Check out the audio files of my poems and commentary from Fishouse, brought to you by Matt O'Donnell. Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941, my study of the interactions between American poets and the peace movement, is out from University of Iowa Press. If you're as poor as me, then have your library order a copy and check it out. Listen to Get Lit, the 2007 edition, on podcast. Check out this poem, "Old Glory," on Big Bridge, and this essay, "Poetry and the Peace Movement: Useable Pasts, Multiple Futures." Listen to the "Poems of Peace and War" event from the Chicago Humanities Festival (November 2006). Listen to Sergey Gandlevsky and Philip Metres, October 12th, 2005 John Carroll University Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems by Lev Rubinstein named one of the "must-have books of 2004" by Ron Silliman. Charles Bernstein's got it on his Recommended Summer Reading List (2005) Check out this poem called Questions for Sergey Gandlevsky--for all you experimental Russophiles (published in New American Writing) Check out this "Ode to Pavement"--for all you indie rokkers (published in DIAGRAM). Listen to the "Get Lit!" Reading, April 20th, 7pm in Faculty Dining Room (Student Center) at John Carroll University SOME BLURBS On To See the Earth: "At its core, To See the Earth is an emotionally and intellectually charged poetry of various and intricately formed voices speaking of and against the unprecedented, destructive horrors taking place throughout our world, while simultaneously speaking for the radical truths of the essential love that infuses the best American poetry in our time. Philip Metres s poetry speaks to us all, in ways critical, vital, profound, and brilliant." --Lawrence Joseph On Primer for Non-Native Speakers: "After reading Primer for Non-Native Speakers, I feel like I've just come back from a trip to Russia. Philip Metres's brilliantly compressed lyrical narratives capture the grandeur and the bleakness of an almost mythological country, where a bronze statue of the great poet Pushkin now gazes out on the golden arches, and the swear of a slammed door is more expressive than a mouthful of words. These are subtle, accomplished, shimmering poems that explore the nuancesof being an outsider in a language." - Maura Stanton "A poem as perfectly executed as "Ashberries: Letters" makes me literally tingle with excitement as I read it..." - Ron Silliman On A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky "We can be grateful to Philip Metres for having introduced English-speaking readers to the astringent and unflappable poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. Like Weldon Kees and Alan Dugan, he is a poet of hard-won clarities, of classical formal concision combined with vernacular swagger. Gandlevsky, with his pugilist stance and lyric heart, is a major discovery." --David Wojahn "Out of the Rubik's Cube of Russia rise the complex strains of Sergey Gandlevsky ... superb translations that uncannily make the Russian ours." —Andrei Codrescu On Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems by Lev Rubinstein "Lev Rubinstein's note-card poems, here transcribed for the page and imaginatively translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky, are an eye-opener! Their particular brand of conceptualism has affinities with our own Language poetry as well as with the French Oulipo, but its inflections are purely those of contemporary Russia...We can literally read between the lines and construct a world of great pathos, humor—and a resigned disillusionment that will strike a resonant chord among American readers." —Marjorie Perloff last updated 8/2/10 over 100,000 hits since 2005! Thanks for Visiting... Drop me a line at pmetres@jcu.edu
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