Ivy Writers Paris vous invite à une soirée
de lectures multilingue
le dimanche 18 octobre 2026 à 17h
avec les auteurs
You are invited to an evening of multilingual poetry with authors:
Olivier Brossard
Ioana Badicioiu
Khaled Mattawa
18 Oct 2026 à 17h
à : Delaville Café, au 1er étage/salle Marguery, 34 boulevard Bonne Nouvelle,
75010 Paris M° Bonne nouvelle (ligne 8 or 9)
RDv au bar avant de monter au 1er! Meet at bar for drinks!
BIOS:
Ioana Badicioiu is a multilingual poet and educator writing at the intersection of Romanian, English, and Italian, with eighteen years of transnational experience across six countries. Her Italian-language poetry has been recognised with a Critics' Award at the Premio Internazionale Pablo Neruda (2026), third prize at the Premio Centurione (2026), and second prize at the Premio di Arte Letteraria Juan Montalvo. Her English-language poetry received second prize at the Premio Internazionale Lord Byron, and "Pumnuţ" is forthcoming in Tears in the Fence. She was an invited presenter at the Poesiæuropa International Summer School (Isola Polvese, Italy, June 2026).
Olivier Brossard is professor of American literature at Gustave Eiffel University. An honorary member of the Institut Universitaire de France, he co-directs the Poets & Critics program and the [urban writing] program. A co-founder of the Franco-American association double change, he is a translator and editor of the North American series published by Joca Seria. He has translated several American writers, including John Ashbery, Marcella Durand, Tonya Foster, Frank O’Hara, Ron Padgett, and Keith Waldrop. Since 2023, he has led a collective translation workshop at Gustave Eiffel University, which resulted in the volume Argent négatif by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (2026). Olivier Brossard is the author of two books of poetry, Let (2024) and autotune (2026), published by P.O.L.
Born and raised in
Benghazi, Libya, poet Khaled Mattawa relocated to the United States
as a teenager in 1979. He earned a BA in political science and economics from
the University of Tennessee, an MA and an MFA from Indiana University, and a
PhD from Duke University.
Influenced by Milan Kundera and Federico García Lorca, as well as the Arab
poets whose work he translates, Mattawa’s poetry frequently explores the
intersection of culture, narrative, and memory. In a 2007 Blackbird interview,
addressing the connection between his emigration from Libya to the United
States and his poetry, Mattawa observed, “I think memory was very important to
my work as a structure, that the tone of remembrance, or the position of
remembering, is very important, was a way of speaking when I was in between
deciding to stay and not stay, and I had decided to stay.”
Mattawa has published several collections of poetry, including Fugitive
Atlas (Graywolf Press, 2020), Tocqueville (New
Issues Poetry & Prose, 2010), Amorisco (Ausable Press, 2008), Zodiac
of Echoes (Ausable Press, 2003), and Ismailia Eclipse (The
Sheep Meadow Press, 1995). He has also written two essays, Mahmoud
Darwish: The Poet's Art and His Nation (Syracuse University Press,
2014) and How Long Have You Been With Us?: Essays on Poetry (University
of Michigan Press, 2016). He has translated numerous volumes of
contemporary Arabic poetry, including Adonis's Concerto al-Quds (The
Margellos World Republic of Letters; Yale University Press, 2017), Shepherd
of Solitude: Selected Poems of Amjad Nasser (Banipal Publishing, 2009), Miracle
Maker: Selected Poems of Fadhil Al-Azzawi (BOA Editions, 2003) and Without
an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2002),
Joumana Haddad's Invitation to a Secret Feast (Tupelo Press, 2008),
Iman Mirsal's These are not oranges, my love: selected poems (Sheep
Meadow Press, 2008), Maram Al-Massri's A Red Cherry on a White-Tiled Floor:
Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2004 / Copper Canyon Press, USA,
2007), Fadhil Al Azzawi's In Every Well A Joseph Is Weeping (poems
of Quarterly Review of Books, 1997), Hatif Janabi's Questions and
Their Retinue: Selected Poems (University of Arkansas Press, 1996).
He coedited Beyond Memory: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American
Creative Nonfiction (University of Arkansas Press, 2020) in addition
to coediting the anthologies Dinarzad’s Children: An Anthology of Arab
American Fiction (University of Arkansas Press, 2004) and Post Gibran:
Anthology of New Arab American Writing (Syracuse University Press,
1999). His own work has been widely anthologized as well.
He has been awarded several Pushcart Prizes and the PEN Award for Literary
Translation, in addition to a translation grant from the National Endowment for
the Arts, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship, the Alfred Hodder Fellowship at
Princeton University, and a MacArthur fellowship.
The editor of Michigan Quarterly Review, he has taught at Indiana
University; California State University, Northridge. He now teaches at the
University of Michigan. For more information: lsa.umich.edu/english/people/faculty/kmattawa.html
