The Paradise of Danez Smith’s “summer, somewhere,” by Philip Metres

In Issue 20.1, we present a craft review feature celebrating the art of extraordinary writing. The feature was inspired by Holly Goddard Jones’s “Unreasonably Good Stories: Breaking the Competency Ceiling,” and we’re pleased to share here Philip Metres’s contribution to the conversation. (Read the entire feature here.)

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Philip Metres has written numerous books including Shrapnel Maps (Copper Canyon, 2020). Winner of Guggenheim and Lannan fellowships, alongside three Arab American Book Awards, he is professor of English and director of the Peace, Justice, and Human Rights program at John Carroll University, and faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA program.