Image of Philip Metres, a brown man with black hair, wearing dark blue and paisley shirt, with arms crossed — Philip Metres

A white man with glasses and a white shirt smiling — Philip Metres

Readings & Lectures

Fugitive/Refuge: Philip Metres and Faisal Mohyuddin

November 9, 2024 | 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Poetry Foundation, 61 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL 60654

Philip Metres will read from his new book Fugitive/Refuge, an extended qasidah reflecting on exile and family histories of forced migration from global violence. Chicago poet Faisal Mohyuddin will read from his new book Elsewhere: An Elegy, a meditative and spare collection on fatherhood and grief.

Murmurs from the poets:

A toast to the migrants
the authors of movement
who write with their

feet

— Philip Metres, from Fugitive/Refuge

We have always been the displaced children of displaced children,
Tethered by distant rivers to abandoned lands, our blood’s history

lost.

— Faisal Mohyuddin, from Ghazal for the Diaspora

This event is part of the Poetry Foundation’s fall 2024 season, Murmuring Americas. All Poetry Foundation events are completely free of charge and open to the public, though advanced registration is encouraged. The performance space is ADA-compliant and wheelchair-accessible, and the program will feature CART captioning and ASL interpretation. For more information about accessibility at the Poetry Foundation, please visit our Accessibility Guide.