In The Stein Galleries, CAC: Creative Arts Center poet, scholar, and translator Philip Metres will give a poetry reading on Thursday, November 12, at 11:00 in the Stein Galleries, CAC Creative Arts Center. Philip Metres is the author and translator of a number of books and chapbooks, including Sand Opera (Alice James Books forthcoming 2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (forthcoming 2014), Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Poetic Texts of Lev Rubinstein (Ugly Duckling Presse forthcoming 2014), A Concordance of Leaves (Diode 2013), abu ghraib arias (Flying Guillotine 2011), To See the Earth (Cleveland State 2008), and Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941 (University of Iowa 2007). His work has appeared in Best American Poetry, and has garnered two NEA fellowships, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, five Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Beatrice Hawley Award, two Arab American Book Awards, the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Anne Halley Prize, a Russian Institute for Literary Translation grant, and the Creative Workforce Fellowship. He is professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
For more information on Metres, visit http://www.philipmetres.com
All are invited. The reading is open to future students, current students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the public.
For more information about the reading and WSU Creative Writing, please contact Christopher DeWeese at christopher.deweese@wright.edu or x3136.
This reading is sponsored by the Wright State University English Department and The Creative Writing Program.
