Dr. Ofelia Zepeda
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Dr. Ofeila Zepeda is the author of three books of poetry and has been awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, served as Poet Laureate of Tucson, and delivered the 2010 Lawrence Clark Powell Lecture. She completed a public art project, inscribing bilingual poems on large boulders on North Mountain Avenue and is a UA Regents' Professor and a member of the Tohono O'ohdam Nation. Dr. Zepeda's reading was on January 26, 2011.
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