Urban Arts Space is honored to join with The Ohio State University Department of English and Costura Creative to present From the Language of Ash, a new, free reading series organized by poet, essayist, and cultural critic Hanif Abdurraqib.
The latest edition also features a reading from Analicia Sotelo.
Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay for Milkweed Editions, 2018. She is also the author of the chapbook, Nonstop Godhead, selected by Rigoberto González for a 2016 Poetry Society of America National Chapbook Fellowship. Her poem “I’m Trying to Write a Poem About a Virgin and It’s Awful” was selected for Best New Poets 2015 by Tracy K. Smith.
Poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, Boston Review, FIELD, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and The Antioch Review. She is a recipient of the 2016 DISQUIET International Literary Prize, a Canto Mundo fellowship, and scholarships from the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley and the Image Text Ithaca Symposium. Sotelo has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, BookList, and was reviewed in the New York Times Book Review.
She holds a BA in English Literature from Trinity University & an MFA in Poetry from the University of Houston. Analicia is the Director of Communications & Development at Writers in the Schools. She serves as an Adroit Journal Summer Mentor, a committee member of the Poison Pen Reading Series, and on the City of Houston's Millennial Advisory Board.
Admission is free and open to the public.
