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.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Chanting in the House of Nabokov: An Interview with Jerome (and Diane) Rothenberg in St. Peterburg, Russia (2002) by Philip Metres

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    Chanting in the House of Nabokov: An Interview with Jerome (and Diane) Rothenberg in St. Peterburg , Russia by Philip Metres St....
Sunday, December 31, 2023

A Year in Review (2023)

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Though the great song return no more There’s keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave. --W.B...
Friday, December 29, 2023

Fugitive/Refuge (2024) coming soon!

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Coming soon!  In Fugitive/Refuge , Philip Metres follows the journey of his refugee ancestors—from Lebanon to Mexico to the United States—in...
Friday, November 24, 2023

Ceasefire Now!

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Monday, December 14, 2020

Home Front Practices: a dialogue with E.J. McAdams and Philip Metres

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  HOME FRONT PRACTICES: a dialogue with E.J. McAdams and Philip Metres   This interview took place on a road trip from Woodstock, CT to ...
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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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