 ReadingsAround Noon with Dee Perry, WCPN, Cleveland, May 19, 2009 Tres Verse Festival, Coventry Library, Cleveland Heights, OH, May 10, 2009 May 4th Commemoration, Kent State University, May 3, 2009 Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, April 1, 2009 Celebration of Scholarship, John Carroll University, March 26, 2009 Arts at Lunch, John Carroll University, March 23-24, 2009 "Come Together: Imagine Peace" reading, Cleveland, Ohio, March 20 2009 "The Writer and the World," Indiana University, Bloomington, February 26, 2009 Reading for Gaza Fundraiser, February 21, 2009 Reading, Louisville Conference, Louisville, KY February 20, 2009 Come Together: Imagine Peace reading, Links Hall, Chicago, February 13, 2009 Inclined to Speak reading, AWP, Chicago, February 12, 2009 Suenen's Book Series, John Carroll, January 28, 2009 Visible Voice Books/Language Foundry, Cleveland, OH, January 22, 2009 Come Together book release reading, Mr. Smith's Coffeehouse, Sandusky, OH, December 2008. Benefit Reading for the Lost Boys, November 22, 2008 John Carroll University, November 19, 2008 Felix Reading Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, September 18, 2008. Literary Café, Tremont, OH September 11, 2008. Black Box Reading, Orono, Maine, June 2008. Myopic Books, Chicago IL, May 18, 2008. Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, April 24, 2008. Mac's Backs Paperbacks, Cleveland Heights, OH, April 14, 2008 Firelands College, Huron Ohio, April 9, 2008 Around Noon with Dee Perry, WCPN, Cleveland, April 8, 2008. Visible Voice Books, March 2008. Arts at Lunch readings, John Carroll University, March 11 and 13, 2008 Get Lit! JCU faculty reading, University Heights, OH March 6, 2008 The Moe Green Poetry Hour, Blog Talk Radio, March 5, 2008 Louisville Conference, Louisville, KY February 20, 2008 John Carroll Student Poetry Reading, November 27, 2007.
Pictured (left-right): Betsy Coleman, Katie Arthurs, Brendan McLaughlin, Jess Morris, Meredith Snow, Marygrace Hemme, Philip Metres, A.J. Dibbin, Christina Pottmeyer, Daniel Garbes, Katie Sedon, Heather Cigoi, Tammy Layton, Joe McNair, and John Filkorn. One promotional account of the event, written by Tammy Layton, went like this: "You'll laugh; you'll cry. You may wonder what the hell the poems mean--but you won't be bored. Topics not limited to: Polish sausages; family; death; sex; SoCal culture; friends; desire; war and peace; homelessness; art; Tremont; dead ends; and vaginas." And so much more. Installation of "Farther and Farther On," Literature and Culture Conference Since 1900, Louisville, KY February 2007. During the "Poetry and Performance" panel, I invited the audience to walk through my installation, set up in the quad between the Humanities Building and the Library at the University of Louisville campus.
Credits 
Here, everything begins. Everything begins here. But let's go farther. 
Mike Magee, bowing to poem. 
Barrett Watten, cataloguing a comedic novelty. 
Magee hunting for poetry. 
Metres videodocumenting the excursion. 
Patrick Durgin, in action. 
Here, one shouldn't stay for too long. (Card Eight). 
Lynn Keller, Dee Morris, and Carla Harryman, farther on. 
Let's go farther.. (Card Four). (Thanks to Kaplan Harris for these photos of the installation!) - New Words/Akron Art Museum, O'Neill House, Akron OH, January 28, 2007
- Get Lit! John Carroll University, January 24, 2007
- Mac's Backs, January 13, 2007
- Chicago Humanities Festival, November 4, 2006
- Bilingual Reading, American Literary Translators Association Conference, Bellevue, Washington, October 21, 2006.
- Enormous Room Reading, Kent State Stark, April 6, 2006
20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 25, 2006.
Readings with Sergey Gandlevsky (2005) Sergey Gandlevsky Interview for Russian TV International (New York) Gandlevsky and Pushkin in Michael Wachtel's office (Princeton) Philip Metres and Gandlevsky reading at Hunter College (NYC) Metres at Hunter College Walt Whitman's boots (NYC) It is Dangerous to Touch or Tamper With Lines Metres and E.J. McAdams, New York City  Gandlevsky at University of Wisconsin, Madison  Gandlevsky at Wesleyan University  Metres and Gandlevsky and Wesleyan Gandlevsky at cemetery in Amherst, with Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson kitsch Gandlevsky and Metres with Emily Dickinson, "called back" Gandlevsky pondering his next move at Amherst College  Gandlevsky and Metres with samovars in Amherst  In Cambridge, with Gandlevsky's people  The Bus Ride North to Hanover  Class with Mr. Gandlevsky at Dartmouth Metres, David Young, and Gandlevsky with Tu Fu at Oberlin College Metres and Gandlevsky at John Carroll  Gandlevsky at Nighttown  Metres at City Lights Metres, Gandlevsky, and Mikhail Iossel on Jack Kerouac StreetSpecial thanks to everyone who made this reading tour happen: John Carroll University's Center for Global Education (for funding our travel), my wife Amy Breau and daughter Adele (for putting up with my absence), Anselm Berrigan and the Poetry Project crew (Stacy, etc.), Matvei Yankelevich, the Russian club at Hunter College, Project Gorod (Sasha Stessin), Michael Wachtel (and Princeton University), Jennifer Tischler (and CREECA at UWisconsin Madison), Duffy White (and the Wesleyan Slavics Department), Cathy Ciepela (and Amherst) (Cathy, thanks for driving us to Cambridge!), Stephanie Sandler and the Davis Center at Harvard, Lev Loseff at Dartmouth, Brian Cook (for brotherhood), Jeff Parker (and Eastern Michigan University), David Young (and Oberlin), John Carroll University, Alik Zholkovsky (and the USC Slavics Department), Marjorie Perloff (thanks!), Lazar Fleishman (Stanford), Jenny Barker, and Becca Black. Readings (2004-2005)Open Mike, PCA/ACA conference, San Diego, March 25th Art Exhibit Opening Reception, Dolan, JCU, March 15th Poetry Not in the Woods, Shaker Heights Public Library, February 22nd "Inside the Poet's Studio with Rhiannon Lathy," WJCU 88.7, January 27th Mac's Backs Paperbacks, Cleveland Heights, January 7th Open Mike Night at John Carroll, December 1st Poets for Peace reading, Cleveland Public Library, November 7th The Poetry Forum at Larry's Bar, Columbus, October 11th Wick Poetry Series, Kent State University, Kent, September 28th Youngstown State University, Youngstown, September 24th Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, July 25th Wordsworth's Books, Cambridge MA, July 24th National Poetry Foundation Conference. Orono, ME, June 24th Poetry Really in the Woods, Shaker Heights, OH, June 10th Carroll Review reading, John Carroll, May 6th Mac's Backs Paperbacks, Cleveland Heights, May 1st New Words/Akron Art Museum, O'Neill House, Akron, April 18th Poetry Dialogue, Cuyahoga Community College, April 16th Tin House/Swink reading, Chicago, March 25th Webdelsol/Ugly Duckling Presse reading, Chicago, March 25th Wick Poetry 20th Anniversary Program. Kent State, March 13th 20th Century Conference, University of Louisville, February 28th
Contact Philip MetresIf you would like Phil to read at your upcoming event, or would like to invite Sergey Gandlevsky or Lev Rubinstein, contactPhilip Metres
Department of English
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH 44118
(216) 397-4528
pmetres@jcu.edu
|