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Philip Metres Philip Metres, Ph.D., professor in the English department, has won a Lannan Fellowship for poetry. The Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships were established in 1989 to honor established and emerging writers whose work is exceptional. During the past 20 years, the Lannan Foundation, through its awards and fellowships program, has awarded 173 writers and poets more than $13 million. The awards recognize writers who have made significant contributions to English-language literature. The fellowships recognize writers of distinctive literary merit who demonstrate potential for continued outstanding work. “This award is so well-deserved,” says Margaret Farrar, dean of John Carroll University’s College of Arts and Sciences. “JCU is lucky to count Phil among our faculty. We thank him for bringing his great gifts to our students and colleagues.” Candidates for the awards and fellowships are recommended to the Lannan Foundation by a network of writers, literary scholars, publishers, and editors. Nominators are geographically dispersed and serve anonymously. The foundation’s literary committee determines the recipients. Through its awards and fellowships program, the foundation hopes to stimulate the creation of literature written originally in English and develop a wider audience for contemporary prose and poetry. In May, Metres was selected as the inaugural recipient of the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Excellence in Journalism, Arts & Letters. The Hunt prize seeks to encourage writers younger than 45 who employ a Catholic imagination in their writing. The award, established in 2014, is named for Rev. George Hunt, S.J., the longest-tenured editor-in-chief of America magazine. Dr. Metres’ address to this year’s award ceremony was also recently featured in America Magazine. You can read it here. Find out more information about the Lannan Literary Awards and Fellowships.