Thursday, November 19: Lila Zemborain and Rosa Alcalá present a bilingual reading of Zemborain’s Mauve Sea-Orchids, translated by Rosa Alcalá and Mónica de la Torre. Click here to read more about these two writers. Also: On Friday at 3:30 p.m., Zemborain and Alcalá return for a colloquium on their experience of working together to translate Mauve Sea-Orchids.

Applications for the Mary Ann Camapu Fellowship, which awards $1000 and an opportunity to read in the Poetry Center Reading Series to a deserving Southern Arizona poet, are due this Friday. Click here for details.

The Poetry Center is featured in Tucson Home Magazine's Best of 2009 Design+Culture+Living issue! Visit: Tucson Home Magazine.

Contemporary American Nature Poetry
By turns mystic, dystopic, and sublime, the natural world has served poets since the Romantics as a dramatic backdrop, an expression of the divine, or a mirror for the human condition. Learn more here.

The University of Arizona Poetry Center is pleased to announce the winners of The 2009 Hattie Lockett Awards For Poetry: Hallie Havican, Brett Larson, Julie Swarstad. The Hattie Lockett Awards are presented annually to the students who, in the fall of their senior year, are judged to have demonstrated the greatest promise as poets.  Winners receive a prize of $400. This year’s contest was judged by Orlando White.

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