Rosa Alcalá Reading / January 30, 2014
Event Report
The New Writing Series presents poet and translator Rosa Alcalá (NWS S’2004) this Thursday, January 30, 2014, at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald Adaptive Presentation/Performance Environment Black Box space in 104 Stewart Commons.
Rosa Alcalá is the author of two books of poetry, Undocumentaries (2010) and The Lust of Unsentimental Waters (2012), both from Shearsman Books. Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña (Ugly Duckling Press, 2012), which she edited, translated, and transcribed, was runner-up for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has also translated the work of Lila Zemborain, Lourdes Vázquez, and other poets, with translations included in the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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