Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي
@philipmetres
Arab American 🇱🇧 writer, Guggenheim Fellow, author of Fugitive/Refuge, Shrapnel Maps, Sand Opera, etc. For a just peace in 🇵🇸 ✊🏽 & everywhere
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Join us in celebrating #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth! Our 2025 reading list features recommendations from Nightboat Books, Fonograf Editions, Graywolf Press, Tupelo Press, Copper Canyon Press, Seven Stories Press, African Poetry Book Fund, Half Mystic & more indie presses: clmp.org/news/a-reading…
Andrea Abi-Karam’s VILLAINY “foments political action in public spaces, and indexes the various emotional states ... to which queers must tend during protest.” Poetry from Nightboat Books for #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth: bookshop.org/a/500/97816436…
THE JANUARY CHILDREN by Safia Elhillo (African Poetry Book Fund) is on our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: This poetry collection “depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home.” bookshop.org/a/500/97808032…
Read HIM, ME, MUHAMMAD ALI by Randa Jarrar (Sarabande Books) this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth: The stories in this collection “grapple with love, loss, displacement, and survival in a collection that moves seamlessly between realism and fable.” bookshop.org/a/500/97819414…
Khaled Mattawa’s FUGITIVE ATLAS is an “account of refugee crises, military occupations, and ecological degradation, an acute and probing journey through a world in upheaval.” Poetry from Graywolf Press & our #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth reading list: graywolfpress.org/books/fugitive…
Read Philip Metres’s SAND OPERA this #ArabAmericanHeritageMonth: This Alice James Books collection displays the poet’s “unforgettable tenderness: his songs to the world of children and to the children of the world.” alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/sand…
We're back to our regularly scheduled readings! This Thursday Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي is coming to Hollins to read, answer some questions, and sign books! Check out his work on his page: philipmetres.com
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