Readings in Contemporary Poetry

June 5, 1994
155 Mercer Street, NYC, 7:30pm



Walid Bitar

Walid Bitar

Walid Bitar was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1961 and spent his childhood there; he emigrated with his family to Canada. He attended the University of Toronto and spent several years working and traveling in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. From 1990 to 1991, he held a Teaching- Writing Fellowship at the University of Iowa, and he currently lives in Toronto. 2 Guys on Holy Land, his first collection of poems, was published by University Press of New England in 1993.


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