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Metres is the author of ten books, including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020), The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance (University of Michigan, 2018), Pictures at an Exhibition (University of Akron, 2016), Sand Opera (Alice James, 2015), I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (Cleveland State, 2015), Compleat Catalogue of Comedic Novelties (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014), To See the Earth (Cleveland State, 2008), and Behind the Lines: War Resistance on the American Homefront (University of Iowa 2007). His work — poetry, translation, essays, and criticism — has garnered a Lannan fellowship, two NEA fellowships, six Ohio Arts Council Grants, the Hunt Prize, the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Watson Fellowship, the Lyric Poetry Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize. Metres has been called "one of the essential poets of our time," whose work is "beautiful, powerful, magnetically original." His poems have been translated into Arabic, Farsi, Polish, Russian, and Tamil. He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He lives with his family in Cleveland, Ohio. His PennSound author page is home to a number of brief recordings and videos, along with a 2015 reading at Xavier University and a session for From the Fishouse.

Teare's most recent book, Doomstead Days, offers a series of walking meditations on our complicity with climate crisis. His poems document the interdependence of human and environmental health and use fieldwork and archival research to situate chronic illness within bioregional and industrial histories. As the New York Times noted, "Teare's voices let us weigh the insoluble questions of how to live as an ethical being in the face of violence and environmental collapse." Longlisted for the National Book Award, Doomstead Days was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle, Kingsley Tufts, and Lambda Literary Awards. Teare is the author of five previous books, including Pleasure, Companion Grasses, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. His honors include the Brittingham Prize and Lambda Literary and Thom Gunn Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Headlands Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony. After over a decade of teaching and writing in the San Francisco Bay Area, and eight years in Philadelphia, he's now an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia, and lives in Charlottesville, where he makes books by hand for his micropress, Albion Books. His PennSound author page includes a trio of PennSound Podcast interviews with Rachel Zolf and Brent Armendinger, along with Jaime Shearn-Coan's interview of Teare. You'll also find a trio of readings in Philadelphia and a few recordings from tribute events.

We congratulate these two outstanding poets, along with the rest of their cohort, for this tremendous achievement and are deeply honored to be able to share their work with our listeners.