My essay, "Beyond Grief and Grievance: The Poetry of 9/11 and its Aftermath," was published on the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of 2001. My chapbook, abu ghraib arias (2011), was recently published by Flying Guillotine Press. The book is an exploration of the trauma of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal--through the language of detainees, prison manuals, U.S. soldiers, and the Bible. My essay, "Poems for Peace," (2010) published on the Poetry Foundation website. I was 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 "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. See my blog at http://www.behindthelinespoetry.blogspot.com, where I extend the arguments in Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (2007). 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). Apiece 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, was published by the University of Iowa Press. 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 last updated 10/2/11 over 100,000 hits since 2005! Thanks for Visiting... Drop me a line at pmetres@jcu.edu
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