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, September 22, 2009

Help Protect Big Insurance

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
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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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Fugitive/Refuge

Fugitive/Refuge

Shrapnel Maps

Shrapnel Maps

Sand Opera

Sand Opera
Winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award

Pictures at an Exhibition

Pictures at an Exhibition

I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky

I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky

Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein

Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein

abu ghraib arias

abu ghraib arias

To See the Earth

To See the Earth

Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront

Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront

Ode to Oil

Ode to Oil
chapbook

A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky

A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky

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Come Together: Imagine Peace

Come Together: Imagine Peace
An Anthology of Peace Poems

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