Poet Philip Metres to Give Westminster School Reading Dec. 8

Poet Philip Metres will give a reading at Westminster School Dec. 8 as part of the Friday Nights at Westminster series. The event is free and open to the public and will begin at 7 p.m. in the Gund Reading Room of Armour Academic Center.

Metres has written and translated a number of books and chapbooks, including “Pictures at an Exhibition,” “Sand Opera,” “I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky,” “To See the Earth” and others. His work has appeared widely, including in “Best American Poetry,” and he has garnered two NEA fellowships, two Arab American Book Awards, the Lannon Literary Fellowship and numerous other honors. He is a professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland.

Westminster School is located at 995 Hopmeadow St. in Simsbury. Ample parking will be available in the parking lot adjacent to Armour Academic Center. The event is made possible by a generous grant from the Ford-Goldfarb English Department Enrichment Fund.