Khaled Mattawa (born 1964) is a Libyan poet, and a renowned Arab-American writer, he is also a leading literary translator, focusing on translating Arabic poetry into English. He works as an Assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, where he currently lives and writes.
The radio blares "Dialogue of Souls,"
and the woman who hated clouds
watches the sky.
...
Evening coffee, and my mother salts
her evening broth—not equanimity,
but the nick of her wrist—
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