Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking

Further thoughts on the cultural labor of poetry and art. Not merely "is it good?," but "what has it accomplished?"...reviews of recent poetry collections; selected poems and art dealing with war/peace/social change; reviews of poetry readings; 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.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Cleveland Artists Bringing It

Philip Metres from CPAC on Vimeo.
Kevin Keating from CPAC on Vimeo.
Raymond Bobgan from CPAC on Vimeo.
George Bilgere from CPAC on Vimeo.
George Brant from CPAC on Vimeo.
Joshua Brown from CPAC on Vimeo.
Eric Coble from CPAC on Vimeo.
David Shimotakahara from CPAC on Vimeo.
Dan Rourke from CPAC on Vimeo.
Amanda Powell from CPAC on Vimeo.
Robin VanLear from CPAC on Vimeo.
Christine Howey from CPAC on Vimeo. Faye Hargate from CPAC on Vimeo.
Terence Greene from CPAC on Vimeo.
Christa Ebert from CPAC on Vimeo.
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Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including Fugitive/Refuge (2024), Ochre & Rust: New Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky (2023), Shrapnel Maps (2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (2018), Pictures at an Exhibition (2016), Sand Opera (2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (2015). His work has garnered a Guggenheim, a Lannan, two NEAs, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Russian, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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