Philip Metres | |
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 Metres in 2016 | |
| Born | July 4, 1970 San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | College of the Holy Cross (BA) Indiana University Bloomington (MA, MFA, PhD) |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Spouse | Amy Breau |
Philip Metres (born July 4, 1970) is an American writer, poet, translator, scholar, and essayist.
His poetry books include Shrapnel Maps, Pictures at an Exhibition, and Sand Opera. He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Poetry,[1] American Poetry Review, New England Review, Tin House,[2] Ploughshares, New American Writing, Massachusetts Review, and others.[3][4][5] His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry; The New American Poetry of Engagement; With Our Eyes Wide Open: Poems of the New American Century;[6] A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (2011); I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights (2009);[7] and Inclined to Speak: Contemporary Arab American Poetry (2008).
- ^ "Biography: Philip Metres". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ Tin House. "Trash: Issue #13, Fall 2002". Tin House. Archived from the original on 19 June 2013. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Poets for Living Waters: Three Poems by Philip Metres". Poets Gulf Coast. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ "Third Factory/Notes to Poetry: Attention Span 2011 – Philip Metres". Third Factory. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ Metres, Phil. "Baby Weight". Cleveland Magazine. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ Hix, H.L. "Philip Metres' Answers". Retrieved 13 February 2012.
- ^ Gregory, Alicia (16 July 2010). "Review: 'I Go to the Ruined Place'". Foreign Policy in Focus. Retrieved 13 February 2012.