Khaled Mattawa, poetry reading
Yeager Recital Hall, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m.
Mattawa, who grew up in Libya, teaches in the Creative Writing program at the University of Michigan. He is a poet who writes in English and is a translator of poetry written in Arabic. He is the author of three collections of poetry, the most recent being Amorisco, and has also translated five books of contemporary Arabic poetry. Supported by the Elon Fund for Excellence and Middle Eastern Studies Grant.