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Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict
The Arab-Israeli conflict has become a touchstone of international politics and a flash point on college campuses. And yet, how do faculty teach such a contentious topic in class? …
The Sound of Listening
The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance stakes a claim for the cultural work that poems can perform—from providing refuge to embodying resistance, from recovering …
Shrapnel Maps
Writing into the wounds and reverberations of the Israel/Palestine conflict, Philip Metres' fourth book of poems, Shrapnel Maps, is at once elegiac and activist, an exploratory …
Sand Opera
"Sand Opera is what political poetry must be like today in our age of seemingly permanent war."--Mark NowakSand Opera emerges from the dizzying position of being named but unheard …
Fugitive/Refuge
Dynamically pairing traditional and experimental forms, Philip Metres traces ancient and modern migrations in an investigation of the ever-shifting idea of home.In Fugitive/Refuge, …
Pictures at an Exhibition
Wrestling with the questions of travel, memory, and perception, Pictures at an Exhibition: A Petersburg Album is, at its core, an unrequited love song to St. Petersburg. The fever …
Behind the Lines
Whether Thersites in Homer's ""Iliad"", Wilfred Owen in ""Dulce et Decorum Est,"" or Allen Ginsberg in ""Wichita Vortex Sutra,"" poets have long given solitary voice against the …
2019 WLA Folios: Home
Published every year in the spring, WLA Folios is a themed issue which complements and magnifies the annual journal while staking out new ground. For 2019, the focus of WLA Folios …
Primer for Non-Native Speakers
"e;After reading Primer for Non-Native Speakers, I feel like I've just come back from a trip to Russia. Philip Metres's brilliantly compressed lyrical narratives capture the …
Still Seeking an Attitude
From her activism to her passionate writings, June Jordan (1936 - 2002) is one of the most revered American poets of our time. Jordan's writing simultaneously provokes delight and …
Behind the Lines
Whether Thersites in Homer's Iliad, Wilfred Owen in "e;Dulce et Decorum Est,"e; or Allen Ginsberg in "e;Wichita Vortex Sutra,"e; poets have long given solitary …
Prison Etiquette
Of the 50,000 Americans who declared themselves conscientious objectors during World War II, nearly 6000 went to prison, many serving multi-year sentences in federal lockups. Some …