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Khaled Mattawa
Khaled Mattawa is the William Wilhartz Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan. His latest book of poems is
Fugitive Atlas
(Graywolf, 2020). Mattawa is editor-in-chief of
Michigan Quarterly Review
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