Philip Metres

Philip Metres

Philip Metres is the translator of Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (Green Linden Press, 2023).

He is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon Press, 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan Press, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James Books, 2015), and five volumes of poetry in translation; the most recent is Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (Green Linden Press, 2023). His work has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. Recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, and the Hunt Prize, Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, and magnetically original.” He is Professor of English and Director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.