Khaled Mattawa

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Mattawa Photo © Khairy Shaaban

Khaled Mattawa is the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently Mare Nostrum (2019; see WLT, Winter 2020, 91). A MacArthur Fellow, he teaches at the University of Michigan and edits Michigan Quarterly Review.

Fugitive Atlas by Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa
Minneapolis. Graywolf Press. 2020. 112 pages. AN ATLAS IS A BOOK of maps and charts. But what would a “fugitive atlas” look like? In his fifth full-length collection of poems, MacArth…
Easter Sunday, Rajab in Mid-Moon

Spring 2020
Khaled Mattawa
Photo: Mozambique Channel by Rod Waddington / Flickr after Goethe’s Divan 1. Find the poet by the channel of Mozambique flown south to taste the air of the first migrants, Al-Khidr’s pro…
Mare Nostrum by Khaled Mattawa

Khaled Mattawa
Louisville, Kentucky. Sarabande Books. 2019. 36 pages. Khaled Mattawa’s Mare Nostrum is a lyrical account of the plight of migrants fleeing into Europe during Italy’s Mare Nostrum operation…