Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي
@PhilipMetres
Arab American 🇱🇧 writer, Guggenheim Fellow, author of Fugitive/Refuge (2024), Shrapnel Maps, Sand Opera, etc. For a just peace in 🇵🇸 ✊🏽 & everywhere
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Alina Stefanescu
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. romanian-alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting.
Patricia Smith
Academy Chancellor, Ruth Lilly Prize, Pulitzer finalist, Kingsley Tufts, LA Times Book Prize, NAACP Image Award, Poetry Prof @ Princeton
Ilya Kaminsky
Author of Deaf Republic (@GraywolfPress), Dancing in Odessa (@tupelopress), and Ecco Anthology of International Poetry (@HarperCollins)
Carl Phillips
Author he/him
Jose Hernandez Diaz
NEA Fellow. Visiting Assistant Professor of CW - UCR. Books: The Fire Eater; Bad Mexican, Bad American; The Parachutist; Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man.
'Fugitive / Refuge is an immensely complex collection, one that defies a quick read and instead encourages readers to sit with their own place'
Thrilled to see a new review from 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 on FUGITIVE/REFUGE by Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/17/rev…
Registration open for Lit Fest in Youngstown, Oh! 👏Poetics of Learned Inheritance Jessica Cuello Ellen Kombiyil Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي & Jane Springer Jane Springer 👏 The Body Politic Molly Fuller Nicole Robinson Nicole Robinson & Kelley Shinn
#writingcommunity
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Just to say FUGITIVE/REFUGE poems by Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي Copper Canyon Press is an essential work at the apex of creativity/passion, various in moves/forms & determined to respond to what is actual.
As we celebrate National Poetry Month, check out some of our #Jesuit Media Lab articles, podcasts and videos on #poetry , from Mary Karr, Poet/Memoirist/Professor, Pádraig Ó Tuama Pádraig Ó Tuama, Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي, Mary Grace Mangano and more.
jesuitmedialab.org/category/poetr…
Thanks to B.A. Parker & The LeBron James of Pig Feet. for featuring my book Black and Green on the NPR podcast NPRCodeSwitch Code Switch about the history of solidarity between Black American & Irish activists
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Reviewer Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 covers Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي’ collection, FUGITIVE / REFUGE (@CopperCanyonPrs).
Read it here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/17/rev…
Enjoying an evening at Canisius University with Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي (and guest reader Hawa Saleh in photo #2) #nationalpoetrymonth
“By the end of October, it was estimated that 6,000 bombs per week had been dropped on Gaza.” Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي delivers dispatches from the land of erasure during a genocide.
lithub.com/dispatches-fro…
I'm Inspired by the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Program at JCU! #JCUDayofGiving2024 givecampus.com/bx10g1
A college history professor once told me, ' Palestine is an invented identity. You're really Jordanian. There's no such thing as Palestine.'
Wish I could send him this, with my book on the 4th shelf. #ProudToBePalestinian #Palestine
A powerful, intimate, and necessary intervention from Philip Metres on 'poetry's belatedness' amidst an ongoing genocide in Palestine: 'Dispatches from the Land of Erasure During a Genocide' lithub.com/dispatches-fro… via Literary Hub
Dear Nashville folks, please join us here at Belmont University on Tuesday, April 23rd at 7pm, as we host Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي for a poetry reading. Free and open to the public. Parking available in the underground garage beneath the Ayers Building.
We are delighted to share a poem from Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي's FUGITIVE/REFUGE! “For Leila,' a moment between father and daughter, is a reminder of what the speaker is fighting for.
Join us Monday and Thursday in April for a new poem and to make your gift: bit.ly/3ImvqK7
Congratulations to our incredible clients who were named 2024 Guggenheim Fellows! Kirstin Valdez Quade was awarded a fellowship for Fiction, soniashah was awarded one for Nonfiction, and Jos Charles, Vievee Francis, and Safiya Sinclair for Poetry. We're so proud!
