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MCC Daily Tribune

Visiting Poet, Phil Metres, October 15 2025

On Wednesday, October 15, 2025, from 12 to 12:50pm, in room 8-100, visiting poet Phil Metres will discuss portions of his critically acclaimed book Shrapnel Maps, a sensitive and humane investigation of themes connected to the Palestinine-Israel war. His presentation, which is sponsored by the Creative Arts Committee of Monroe Community College, is free and open to all members of the college community. 

Additionally, the Creative Arts Committee has archived a 35-minute video of Metres reading portions of Shrapnel Maps. In this video, the poems appear on screen as he reads them. 

Philip Metres is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon, 2024), Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry and Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), and I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015). His work - poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship - has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. He is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, 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.” He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio.

Anthony Leuzzi
English and Philosophy
10/14/2025