Philip Metres

Philip Metres was born on July 4, 1970, in San Diego to a Lebanese-American father and a Euro-American mother with Irish and German roots. He grew up in the Chicago suburbs. While he was taught to be proud of his Middle

Song for Refugees

by Philip Metres (b. 1970)

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After Mohamad Zatari

Ooze, oud. Ease hearts whose eyes sink low.

Be hourglass in the pillaged O—.

Be wells none see. Unstoppered tears,

O oud, we gather in your bowl.

O ladle of ores, scoop ink here

now seeping from the foreigner,

be sighs, O oud, and cloven aches

in the dark of millions of ears.

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What academic experience was shared by the poets John Milton, John Dryden, Oscar Wilde, and Algernon Swinburne?

Answer

Rustication, the British equivalent to being suspended from school in America. The term is literally derived from the idea of being "banished to the countryside."

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