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A Reading with Ofelia Zepeda

Date(s): Thursday, June 20, 2019, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: 
Burton Barr Central Library, Pulliam Auditorium, 1221 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004
Type(s): 
Reading, Talk
Genre and Form(s): American Indian, Indigenous, Poetry, Translation
Cost: Free

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About this Event

Join the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and Burton Barr Central Library for a reading and talk with poet, linguist, and University of Arizona Regents Professor Ofelia Zepeda on Thursday, June 20, 2019 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Pulliam Auditorium at Burton Barr Central Library (1221 N Central Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85004).

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About the Author

Photograph of Ofelia Zepeda

A member of the Tohono O’odham (formerly Papago) Nation, Ofelia Zepeda grew up in Stanfield, Arizona. She earned a BA, an MA, and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Arizona. She is the author of a grammar of the Tohono O'odham language, A Papago Grammar (1983). Zepeda’s poetry collections include Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995) and Jewed’l-hoi/Earth Movements, O’Odham Poems (1996). 

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