Behind the Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking

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Friday, April 11, 2008

"Studio 360" shows on the Iraq War

"Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen" is one of my favorite npr shows, because of its engaged and engaging arts focus. Host Kurt Andersen is never afraid to get into potentially controversial areas, such as how artists have engaged in and dramatized aspects of the Iraq War

The show for March 21st, 2008 is called "Stop-Loss, Black 47, Stew" and involves conversations with Kimberly Peirce (director of Stop-Loss), and journalist and playwright George Packer, who broke the story about the cost of collaboration for Iraqis who worked as stringers for American journalists.

"Sontag, Hemon, War" (February 29, 2008) involves interviews with Susan Sontag, Aleksandar Hemon, and representations of war.
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Philip Metres is the author of ten books, including 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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