Philip Metres

Biography

Philip Metres’s books include Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon, 2024) and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020). Winner of three Arab American Book Awards, a Guggenheim, two NEA fellowships, and a Pushcart Prize, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University.

Headshot by Heidi Rolf

See Work

POETRY / Fiction 2024

Because Blessing Means to Mark With Blood, Bless

By Philip Metres

this heart, its caverns of somewhere laughter, its waking craters, 
its forest of knives. Dilate its thin pulsing complicities

POETRY / Fiction 2024

Good Friday

By Philip Metres

a lot of talk about peace is talk about talks
and talks about the size 
or shape of tables

POETRY / Fiction 2024

Belfast Soprano

By Philip Metres

not a voice—a trajectory 
                                       of wings

POETRY / Fiction 2024

Tender Helicopter

By Philip Metres

Who knows how many of us 
                                                  you’ve killed, dead set 
on what flows beneath, your mouth