Khaled Mattawa Poetry Reading
Channel: Mobility and Movement
Date: 25/11/2018

Khaled Mattawa offered a few poems as part of the opening ceremonies of the Faculty College on Mobility and Movement held at the College of Wooster.

Mattawa has an undergraduate degree in political science and economics is from the University of Tennessee. His MA and MFA are from Indiana University, and his PhD from Duke University. He received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2014, an Academy of American Poets award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2003 and 2011, and two Pushcart prizes. Influenced by Milan Kundera and Federico García Lorca, as well as the Arab poets whose work he translates, Mattawa’s poetry frequently explores the intersection of culture, narrative, and memory.