Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Join us! philipmetres.substack.com/p/the-metres...philipmetres.substack.comThe Metres Memorization ChallengeCarrying in your mind, by heart, one poem a week for a month 030
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It can sound like a cliché, I know, but that’s not at all how I mean it when I say what an honor it is to work with authors on books of this magnitude, @philipmetres.bsky.social. Long before I became Series Editor, the Poets on Poetry Series was instrumental in helping me shape my own poetics. 011
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Long before I became Series Editor, the Poets on Poetry Series taught me about inquiry and craft. What an honor, then, that two of our books were nominated for the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from the @poetry.foundation. Congratulations, @philipmetres.bsky.social and Jason Schneiderman. 154
Reposted by Philip MetresDiana A @dianalog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026October poem memorization challenge! www.facebook.com/phil.metres/... @philipmetres.bsky.social (I signed up)facebook.com 121
Reposted by Philip MetresYahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 29/04/2026✨Light upon Light @philipmetres.bsky.social #poetry #faith 062
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Congratulations on such a well-earned honor, @philipmetres.bsky.social! And hats off to the entire @uofmpress.bsky.social team for supporting such impactful writing. It’s an honor to be able to contribute to every one of these titles! 131
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Ark of Peace (after Pharoah Sanders), by Philip Metres worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/a...worldliteraturetoday.orgThe Ark of Peace (after Pharoah Sanders), by Philip MetresPhilip Metres reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, and how the ark-like embrace of Pharoah Sanders’s “Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah” provided some sanctuary on a day filled with awful, gu... 043
Reposted by Philip MetresThe Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 28/02/2026We're excited to feature Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social and his poem "Ode to the Wallrunners of Gaza" this week! Read the rest of his poem and his discussion questions on our website, linked in bio. 151
Reposted by Philip MetresZac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 19/02/2026This quote from Le Guin is also emblematic of why you can't be an "A.I. writer". The process is *everything*. 026394
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social · 24/01/2026open.substack.com/pub/philipme...open.substack.comWelcome to the OccupationThe Not-So-Secret History of American empire in R.E.M.'s 1987 song, "Welcome to the Occupation" 021
Reposted by Philip MetresThe Dodge @thedodgemag.bsky.social · 16/01/2026We are so excited to announce that our Special Issue with Guest Editor Sara Abou Rashed is OUT NOW, linked in our bio! We invite you to attend our Zoom Launch Party this Sunday at 2 p.m. EST, where you can hear featured authors read their work! @ruthawad.bsky.social @philipmetres.bsky.social 0123
Reposted by Philip MetresKaren Elizabeth Bishop @kebishop.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Renee Nicole Good (Macklin). 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize, Old Dominion University, "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs." make room for wonder poets.org/2020-on-lear... 031
Reposted by Philip MetresCongresswoman Robin Kelly @robinkelly.house.gov · 08/01/2026I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end. 21946312714176
Reposted by Philip MetresCopper Canyon Press @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social · 19/12/2025We highly recommend this brilliant interview with LISA OLSTEIN and Alina Stefanescu from the Poetry Foundation on the archival sources, erasure, and mythology in OLSTEIN’S latest collection, DISTINGUISHED OFFICE OF ECHOES! Read the full piece at shorturl.at/XyBlR 031
Reposted by Philip MetresMajda Gama @majda.bsky.social · 16/12/2025a version of the Poetry Foundation solely built around grants felt like it "maybe should be a different organization.” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...publishersweekly.comPoetry Foundation Staff Protest Program Cuts, Job LossEmployees at the foundation say the decision of senior leadership to eliminate public programs, announced earlier this month, goes against the organization’s mission, and are circulating a petition to... 052
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 14/12/2025Documentary poetry can either amplify marginalized voices or exploit their suffering. @philipmetres.bsky.social’s DISPATCHES brings together poets wrestling with this distinction, providing crucial guidance for navigating the ethics of writing as witness. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... #Poetry 0133
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 13/12/2025What if emotion IS knowledge? @khadijahqueen.com’s RADICAL POETICS makes the case that “poetry exists as a valuable tool for understanding,” not despite its emotional resonance, but precisely because of it. press.umich.edu/Books/R/Radi... @uofmpress.bsky.social #Poetry #Books #RadicalPoetics 2533568
Reposted by Philip Metresnico @nicodelort.bsky.social · 04/12/2025kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders 94263927
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 28/11/2025How do you teach Palestinian and Israeli literature without pretending the power is equal? @philipmetres.bsky.social proposes “contrapuntal reading,” and DISPATCHES shows it in practice: what it reveals about both texts, as well as what the stakes are. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... #Books 061
Reposted by Philip MetresAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 16/11/2025NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it. 13005945936323
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Coming to Brooklyn November 20th @poetrysociety.org !!! poetrysociety.org/events/psa-r...poetrysociety.orgPSA Reading Series: Gregory Pardlo & Philip MetresPlacing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910. 331
Reposted by Philip MetresJohn Burroughs @jburroughs.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Good to see @philipmetres.bsky.social featured in The Land: thelandcle.org/stories/a-li...thelandcle.orgA life characterized by verse: How one Cleveland poet found himself through writing – The LandWhen Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life. 053
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025It’s another deeply engaging addition to the Poets on Poetry Series, @philipmetres.bsky.social – and a great companion to your latest, DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE: press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp...press.umich.eduDispatches from the Land of ErasureDrawn from a decade of writing and conversations by Arab American poet and writer Philip Metres, Dispatches from the Land of Erasure redefines the writer’s role as a catalyst for justice and a resiste... 031
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 12/11/2025When does a poem become more than art? Frontline workers writing pandemic haiku. Layli Long Soldier rewriting congressional resolutions. YOUR HISTORICAL LOVELINESS asks what happens when poetry stops being about witness and becomes action itself. press.umich.edu/Books/Y/Your... 183
Reposted by Philip MetresJen Benka @jenbenka.bsky.social · 11/11/2025"Always the same story: two people, one tree, not enough land or light or love." —Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social thelandcle.org/stories/a-li...thelandcle.orgA life characterized by verse: How one Cleveland poet found himself through writing – The LandWhen Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life. 011
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Physicists at CERN told Amy Catanzano they can use quantum theory but find it "counterintuitive.” She recognized immediately: quantum logic IS poetic logic. THE IMAGINARY PRESENT explores how poetry can reshape scientific understanding. @uofmpress.bsky.social press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-... 052
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Can you document trauma without exploiting it? @utopiaminus.bsky.social warns that the “representation of violence can produce its own kind of violence.” In @philipmetres.bsky.social’s DISPATCHES, poets debate what documentary poetry can and can’t do for justice – and whether writing is enough. 172
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Learn more about @philipmetres.bsky.social’s book and order your copy here: press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... 021
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 04/10/2025When Israeli forces captured Jaffa in 1948, the municipal archives vanished, erasing Palestinians' legal proof of land ownership. @philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE shows how Arab poets have sought to preserve this disappeared history. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... 0108
Reposted by Philip MetresSimeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025“Sitting close to the center, not very high in the branches, / I heard it hitting the high leaves, and I was happy, // watching it happen without it happening to me.” —Marie Howe, “The Copper Beech” www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48561/...poetryfoundation.orgThe Copper BeechImmense, entirely itself, it wore that yard like a dress, with limbs low enough for me to enter it and climb the crooked ladder to where I could lean against the trunk and practice being alone. One... 053
Reposted by Philip MetresDerek Pollard, PhD @doc-pollard.bsky.social · 06/09/2025When poets debate whether metaphor itself perpetuates harm, every image becomes an ethical choice. @philipmetres.bsky.social's DISPATCHES FROM THE LAND OF ERASURE captures these heated conversations, changing how we approach poems that engage cultural difference. press.umich.edu/Books/D/Disp... 073
Philip Metres @philipmetres.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Grateful for this work and the work of the work 151
Reposted by Philip Metresthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Nobody who voted to confirm RFK is fit to hold public office 232156872980
Reposted by Philip MetresFactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk" 7942511188
Reposted by Philip MetresTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Concerned that we are losing the necessary ratio. 15% of teachers/faculty should be irretrievably strange eccentrics. Every learning experience should have some element where in later life you can reflect with former classmates about how bizarre at least one (1) class per year was. 671284204
Reposted by Philip MetresIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/08/2025Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.” 203268366900
Reposted by Philip MetresRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/08/2025The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction. 11813189710196
Reposted by Philip MetresRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte. 1037175886342
Reposted by Philip MetresLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/08/2025On settler colonialism, the illusion of progress, and what actually resulted from the Oslo Accords.buff.lyHow the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People“Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories.” –Amílcar Cabral, Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories * From the foundationa… 085
Reposted by Philip MetresLit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/08/2025“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” @philipmetres.bsky.social on Northern Irish solidarity with Palestine.buff.lyThe Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern IrelandI couldn’t believe my eyes: not one, but bunches of Palestinian flags kept appearing, every time we turned onto another Belfast street—waving at me, beckoning, inviting me into their story. It was … 0178
Reposted by Philip MetresElJeffo nature lover & budding Luddite. @eljeffo.bsky.social · 25/08/2025"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned & the last fish been caught will they realize that they can't eat money" old Cree proverb 12180641808
Reposted by Philip Metres𝖼𝗋𝗄Ⓥ @crk5.bsky.social · 26/08/2025In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids] 21981481776
Reposted by Philip MetresJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Find this film. Watch this film. It’s as great a scripted film as you will see this decade. It shows at Telluride this weekend. Seek it out. Like NoOther Land, the doc which won an Oscar last year, the distribution in the US will be impeded. Fight that. Support it. deadline.com/2025/08/osca...deadline.comOscars: Jordan Submits Cherien Dabis’ ‘All That’s Left Of You’ For 2026 Best International Feature Film CategoryOscars: Jordan Submits Cherien Dabis’ ‘All That’s Left Of You’ For 2026 Best International Feature Film Category 063
Reposted by Philip MetresChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 24/08/2025Texas is a majority-minority state, yet Republicans drew maps that make white votes carry 2-3 times more political power than Black or Hispanic votes. That’s what gerrymandering does: it cracks and packs communities of color so their growing numbers translate into less representation. 661414630
Reposted by Philip MetresRaimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 19/08/2025By @mosabbluesky.bsky.social: "This boy is Abdullah Abu Zarqa(5...)... Abdullah was a cancer patient who missed his treatment... because of #Israel ’s inhumane siege. A few days he was evacuated. Today he passed away in a hospital in Turkey. It was too late for him." www.threads.com/@mosab_abuto... 14350
Reposted by Philip Metresmosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Three hours ago, an Israeli quadcopter dropped a grenade on a group of people in Shujaeeya neighborhood in Gaza City. It killed a woman named Yousra Abu al-Kass. Note: Yousra lost her husband and two children in previous air strikes. 03945
Reposted by Philip MetresGT @granitetide.bsky.social · 22/08/2025we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light 269269767838
