The UA Poetry Center is proud to present Khaled Mattawa, our 2018 Spring Resident, who will read from his work. After the reading, there will be a short Q&A and a book signing. Mattawa's residency is sponsored by the Amazon Literary Partnerships. 

Khaled Mattawa is author of four collections of poetry, including Tocqueville (2010), Amorisco 2008, Zodiac of Echoes(2002) and Ismailia Eclipse (1995). He has authored two volumes of literary criticism, How Long Have You Been with Us: Essays on Poetry and Mahmoud Darwish: The Poet’s Art and His Nation (2014); the co-editor of two Arab American literature anthologies: Post Gibran: Anthology of New Arab American Writing (1999) and Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction (2004, 2009); and translator of 10 volumes of modern Arabic poetry by Amjad Nasser (Jordan), Saadi Youssef (Iraq), Adonis (Syria), FadhilAl-Azzawi (Iraq), Iman Mersal (Egypt), Joumana Haddad (Lebanon), and Maram Al-Massri (Syria). Mattawa’s poems, essays and translations have appeared in major American literary reviews and anthologies such as Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The Iowa Review, TriQuarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Best American Poetry. Mattawa is the recipient of many awards including a Guggenheim fellowship, a USA Artists award and a MacArthur fellowship. His books have been awarded the San Francisco Poetry Center Prize, PEN American Center Poetry Translation prize (twice), a finalist for the Pegasus prize, a Notable book recognition from the Academy of American Poets, and 3 Pushcart prizes. Mattawa is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, the premier poetry society in the U.S. and was recently inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

The local opener for this event is Mary Hope Lee. Her bio statement reads: I currently live and work on settler-occupied land in that region of the Sonoran Desert known as Phoenix AZ. Some of my work has been published in This Bridge Called My Back, Callaloo, Chick-Lit: Postfeminist Fiction, Essence magazine, Language in Society, The Journal of Creole Studies, and Feminist Studies.

Readings in Phoenix are presented in collaboration with the Phoenix Art Museum and with support from lead sponsor the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, with additional support from the ASU Creative Writing Program, the Literary & Prologue Society, and Superstition Review.