In the green beginning, in the morning mist, they emerge from their chrysalis of clothes: peel off purses & cells, slacks & Gap sweats, turtle- necks & tanks, Tommy’s & Salvation Army, platforms & clogs, abandoning bras and lingerie, labels & names, courtesies & shames, the emperor’s rhetoric of defense, laying it down, their child- […]
1 Now here I am! 2 So… 3 So here I am… 4 (Where have you been? We’d given up all hope…) 5 So… 6 So here I am! I can’t describe these feelings… 7 …these emotions… 8 …these feelings… 9 (You look just great, so strong and fit, Looking at you now, I almost […]
1 Absolutely impossible. 2 Not at all possible. 3 Impossible. 4 Perhaps, at some point. 5 Sometime. 6 Later. 7 Not yet. 8 Not now. 9 And not now. 10 And not now. 11 Perhaps, soon. 12 It could be soon. 13 Really soon. 14 Perhaps earlier than expected. 15 Quite soon. 16 Just about. […]
Philip Metres, poet and translator, talks about the genesis of his poem Ashberries: Letters.
Philip Metres, poet and translator, talks about his current poetry project, Ur, a meditiation on the theological dimensions of the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib in Iraq in 2003.
Philip Metres, poet and translator, talks about the first poem he ever wrote.
Philip Metres, poet and translator, talks about his greatest obstacles to becoming a poet.
Philip Metres, poet and translator, talks about reading his poems aloud as he writes.