Poetry, Translation and Libyan Art | Khaled Mattawa
In this conversation, we discussed Professor Khaled Mattawa's poetry, translation and work as an academic at the University of Michigan.
Khaled Mattawa currently teaches in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan. He is the author of five books of poetry, and a critical study of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. Mattawa has coedited two anthologies of Arab American literature and translated several volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry. His awards include the Academy of American Poets Fellowship prize, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
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