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Summary: KHALED MATTAWA
POEMS FOR LIBYA,
AND A CONVERSATION
MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012
7:00 P.M. IN SAVERY 260
Free and open to the publicFree and open to the publicFree and open to the public
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Khaled Mattawa's poems!
KHALED MATTAWA is the author of four books of poetry
and the translator of nine volumes of contemporary Arabic
poetry. Mattawa's latest volume of poetry Tocqueville won
the 2011 San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award and the
Arab American National Book Award. His translation of
Adonis's Selected Poems won the PEN USA Center annual
poetry in translation prize. Mattawa is the recipient of the
2010 Academy of American Poets Fellowship Prize and a
Ford/United States artist for 2011. An associate professor of
English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mattawa
is a native of Benghazi, Libya.
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