Come hear Khaled Mattawa's new poems and his translations of modern women's poetry from the Arabic in Austin's cozy, intimate feminist bookstore! Hear new poetry by Mattawa, and his translations of poems by Imam Mersal, Joumana Haddad, Maram Almassri. (These acclaimed Arab women will be present in their poetry and spirit, but not in body.) Baklava and Hot Tea provided! Khaled Mattawa is the author of four books of poems, Ismailia Eclipse (Sheep Meadow, 1996), Zodiac of Echoes (Ausable, 2003), Amorisco (Ausable, 2008), and Tocqueville (forthcoming from New Issues Press). Mattawa has translated eight volumes of contemporary Arabic poetry and co-edited two anthologies of Arab American literature. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship, an NEA translation grant, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and three Pushcart Prizes. Mattawa teaches in the MFA (Creative Writing) Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prof. Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya and immigrated to the United States in his teens.