Jan. 28, Wednesday -- Francisco X. Alarcón, award-winning poet, children's author and professor of Spanish and classics at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ, will share a glimpse into the art of crafting words and images that seize our hearts and minds at 10:30 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and children. The talks are part of the °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ School of Education's Words Take Wing series, now in its fifth year. The series is presented by the Children's Center at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, with additional support from °ÅÀÖÊÓƵ Children's Hospital. For more information, visit .
Alarcón is the author of 10 volumes of poetry. His most recent book of bilingual poetry for children, "Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú," was published by Children’s Book Press of San Francisco last summer.
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Claudia Morain, (530) 752-9841, cmmorain@ucdavis.edu
Donna Justice, School of Education, (530) 754-4826, dljustice@ucdavis.edu