The Boston College Poetry Days Series and The Lowell Humanities Series welcomed Philip Metres to campus in October, 2025. Metres has been called “one of the essential poets of our time,” whose work is “beautiful, powerful, magnetically original.” He is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University. He is the author of twelve books, including, "Fugitive/Refuge, Shrapnel Maps," "The Sound of Listening: Poetry as Refuge and Resistance," "Sand Opera," and "I Burned at the Feast: Selected Poems of Arseny Tarkovsky."

Metres work—poetry, translation, essays, fiction, criticism, and scholarship—has garnered fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Watson Foundation. He is the recipient of the Adrienne Rich Award, three Arab American Book Awards, the Lyric Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, and the Cleveland Arts Prize.

The event was sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College's Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost's Office.