Fifth Annual Caesar and Patricia Tabet Poetry Reading

*Photo credit: Bill Eichner

Julia Alvarez, whose novels include How The García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies is also a prize-winning poet, children’s author and essayist. Her work has earned her numerous awards, including the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Excellence in American Literature and the Hispanic Heritage Award. She has twice been a finalist for National Book Critics Award and her work has often been a selection for the One Book/One City national program. In 2013, she received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.

A book signing will follow the poetry reading, and books will be available for purchase in the lobby.

“ …poetry is that cutting edge of the self, the part which moves out

into experience ahead of every other part of the self. It’s a way of

saying what can’t be put into words, our deepest and most secret

and yet most universal feelings.” —Julia Alvarez

This reading is made possible through the generous support of Dominican University alumna Patricia Tabet ’52. Co-presented by the St. Catherine of Siena Center and the English Department of Dominican University’s Rosary College of Arts and Sciences.