7:00 PM
Donahue Auditorium, Dolan Science Center
1 John Carroll Boulevard
University Heights, OH 44118
Join us for a poetry reading and interfaith conversation with Jessica Jacobs and Philip Metres. Philip Metres is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize and has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, and Watson Foundation. He is the author of twelve books, including Fugitive/Refuge (Copper Canyon, 2024) and Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020) and is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. Jessica Jacobs is the winner of the New Mexico Book Award in Poetry, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, and has received fellowships and residencies from the Sewanee School of Letters, Eliot House, and Frost Place. She is the author of three poetry collections including unalone, poems in conversation with the book of Genesis (Four Way Books, 2024), and coauthor of Write It! 100 Poetry Prompts to Inspire (Spruce Books/Penguin Random House, 2020). She is the founder and executive director of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry.
This event is sponsored by John Carroll University and is free and open to the public.