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Philip Metres is the author of Pictures at an Exhibition (University Of Akron Press, 2016), Sand Opera
(Alice James Books, 2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015), To See the Earth (Cleveland State U Poetry Center, 2008), etc. His work has garnered a Lannan Fellowship, two NEAs, the Hunt Prize for Excellence in Journalism,
Arts & Letters, two Arab American Book Awards, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. He is a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland.