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Rosa Alcala

Professor
Creative Writing
Bilingual Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

Office Building: Education Building
Office Room: 904
Phone: (915) 747-7020
Email: ralcala1@utep.edu

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

Big Other Book Award in Poetry for YOU (finalist) (04/30/2025)
Member, Texas Institute of Letters (Inducted 2019) (01/01/2019-12/31/2019)

Education

Ph D in English, University at Buffalo (2004)

Artistic and Creative Performances and Exhibits

Poetry Reading - Tucson Festival of Books Panels (discussion and readings) (03/15/2025-03/16/2025). Tucson Festival of Books. Tucson, ZA. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Presentation of YOU, book of poems (05/09/2024-05/09/2024). Houston, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Discussion on Publishing and Poetry Reading with Katie Peterson (04/19/2024-04/19/2024). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Launch Party for YOU (04/11/2024-04/11/2024). El Paso, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Artistic Presentation/Exhibit - "You & the Donkey Cart" (poem) (01/22/2024-01/22/2024). "You & the Donkey Cart" (poem) featured on the Slow Down podcast. https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2024/01/24/1048-you-the-donkey-cart. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Phoenix Poets Festival at the University of Chicago (04/12/2023-04/14/2023). Rosa Alcala.
Artistic Presentation/Exhibit - Commissioned translation of "The Mapocho Quipu" (poem) by Cecilia Vicuña for Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India (12/12/2022-04/10/2023). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - International Writers Programs, Lines & Spaces Tour to Tbilisi, Georgia (06/25/2022-07/05/2022). U.S. State Department. Rosa Alcala.
Other - A chain letter between Julie Patton, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Marcella Durand, Deborah Richards, and Rosa Alcalá (01/01/2021-12/31/2021). Commissioned Work. Rosa Alcala.
Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s) - Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge (01/01/2021-12/31/2021). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - 2 poems from fray (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Houston, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - 2 poems from MyOTHER TONGUE, translated into Spanish (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Madrid, Spain. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - 3 poems from fray (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Johnson, VT. Rosa Alcala.
Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s) - Book Review by Jose Angel Aragúz: Archiving Lateness: A Chronicle-Review of MyOTHER TONGUE by Rosa Alcalá (01/01/2020-06/08/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Nonfiction - Book - Contributor (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Global Roll Call Part 3 (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Guest Editor (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s) - Review by Andrea Abi-Karam of New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña, ed., trans. Rosa Alcalá (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - Review of Paula Cucurella's Demasiada luz para hacer poesia (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - The Family Photograph: A Collaborative Approach (Prompts Against Anxiety Series) (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Woodland Pattern Book Center. Milwaukee, WI. Rosa Alcala.
Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s) - Videotaped discussion of my book Undocumentaries (01/01/2020-12/31/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Reading from YOU (11/17/2024). Texas Book Festival. Austin, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Cecilia Vicuña's T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading (10/24/2024). Woodberry Poetry Room. Cambridge, MA. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Presentation of my book of poems, YOU (10/23/2024). Grolier Poetry Book Shop. Cambridge, MA. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Lectura de Poesía Iberoamericana: De punta a punta. De costa a costa (10/05/2024). Feria Internacional del libro de Monterrey. Monterrey, MX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Read poems from MyOTHER TONGUE & YOU (10/04/2024). Coloquio de poesía iberoamericana Elsa Cross. Mexico City. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Presentation of book of poems, YOU (09/17/2024). Temple University. Pittsburgh, PA. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Presentation of book of poems, YOU (09/16/2024). Chicago, IL. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Presentation of book of poems, YOU (05/10/2024). Dallas, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow: A Book Celebration (05/27/2023). Stenen Press. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Poetry Reading & Discussion with Daniel Bortzutzky and Cecilia Vicuña (01/27/2023). Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art and The Poetry Center at the U of AZ. Tucson, AZ. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Chicago Review's 75th Anniversary Celebration (10/27/2022). Chicago Review. Chicago, IL. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Writing in Motherhood/ Escritura y Maternidades (05/10/2022). Words on a Wire. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Paterson Poetry Festival (04/23/2022). Paterson, NJ. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Folklore Revisited (04/14/2022). MFA Mapmakers Alumni Institute/ Pacific University Oregon. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Poetry Festival: Something New (Jersey) (04/03/2022). Hoboken Historical Museum. Hoboken, NJ. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Adroit Journal Issue 40 Reading (01/25/2022). New York, NY. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - 4 poems from YOU (12/31/2021). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Bodies, Presence, Performance (12/31/2021). Tucson, AZ. Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Guest Editor/ September (12/31/2021). Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Anthology - Poem: Pyramid Scheme (12/31/2021). Best American Poetry 2021, Guest Editor Tracy K. Smith. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Print Journal - Poem: You & Amaranta (12/31/2021). New York. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Featured Poet (11/06/2021). Rosario, Argentina. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Featured Poet/ Gulf Coast Reading Series (10/15/2021). Gulf Coast Reading Series. Houston, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Featured Poet/ La Sociedad Para Las Artes Literary Reading (09/24/2021). Las Cruces, NM. Rosa Alcala.
Other - Interview with radio host for Speak Up Las Cruces (09/22/2021). Interview. Las Cruces, NM. Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Class visit to Roberto Tejada's Graduate Seminar (09/13/2021). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - We Propose a New Law (09/02/2021). Planned Parenthood. El Paso, TX. Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - 2021 Pittsburgh International Lit Fest (05/15/2021). City of Asylum. Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Liquid Stars: Translation, Digression, Transformation (with Cecilia Vicuña) (03/25/2021). Pittsburgh Writers Series/ CAPP. Pittsburgh, PA. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Video: reading poems from YOU (01/31/2021). Milwaukee, WI. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - St. Mark's Poetry Project Annual Marathon 2021 (01/01/2021). New York, NY. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Guest Poet & Curator (12/16/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Invitation as Guest Artist - Class Visit (11/13/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Featured Poet (11/10/2020). Rosa Alcala.
Poetry - Online Journal - You Rode a Loop (poem) (05/07/2020). Academy of American Poets. online. Rosa Alcala.
Poetry Reading - Hannelore Quander-Ratee Works in Translation Reading (01/30/2020). Rosa Alcala.

Publications

Two poems from YOU ("You, Amateur Interpreter" and "You to the Future" Nightboat Books (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Where Snow Falls Every Few Pages Rosa Alcalá on David Shapiro (essay) Teachers & Writers Magazine (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Review of YOU by Christopher Luna Raintaxi Online Edition Winter 2024-2025 (2025), Rosa Alcala.
"inflection" Pantheon Books (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Review of YOU by Brittany Torres Garcia (2025), Rosa Alcala.
"The Annotated Nightstand: What Rosa Alcalá Is Reading Now, and Next" By Diana Arterian LitHub (2024), Rosa Alcala.
Six poems from MyOTHER TONGUE & YOU Dense Magazine: When Design Meets NJ 2 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2024 – Alcalá to Zarin by David Starkey California Book Review (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"Blue How I Want You Blue" (poem) Radius Books November 2024 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
Pleiades Book Review: Oli Peters on Rosa Alcalà’s “YOU” Pleiades (2024), Rosa Alcala.
The Marrow (poem) Gravy (Southern Foodways Alliance) 92/ Summer 2024 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"When Nan Goldin Danced in Low-Life Go-Go Bars in Paterson, NJ" The Atlantic June 2024 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"What You Knew About Virginity" The Texas Review Online (2024), Rosa Alcala.
Review of YOU by Leonora Simonovis Harriet, Poetry Foundation (2024), Rosa Alcala.
YOU Coffee House Press (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"Hablar con una" by Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny Literal: Latin American Voices/ Voces latinoamericanas (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"You Choose the World: A Poetics" The Baffler April 2024 73 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"Rosa Alcalá on 'You, the Body, & the Book'" Poetry Society of America, In Their Own Words series (2024), Rosa Alcala.
Translation of two poems in Libro Venado/Deer Book by Cecilia Vicuña Radius Books (2024), Rosa Alcala.
"Rosa Alcala, YOU: Poems," a review by Rob McClennan Rob McClennan's Blog (2024), Rosa Alcala.
3 Poems from YOU On the Seawall (2024), Rosa Alcala.
Three Poems from YOU The Hopkins Review March 2024 (2024), Rosa Alcala.
5 Poems from YOU The Texas Review 42 & 43 All Poetry Double Issue 2022-2023 (2023), Rosa Alcala.
"Clypsedra," translation of poem by Cecilia Vicuña HarperCollins (2023), Rosa Alcala.
"For Real" (a poem) Washington Square Review 49 Summer 2023 (2023), Rosa Alcala.
"You to the Future" Aster(ix) 10th Anniversary Issue Part I: Poetry & Nonfiction June 2023 (2023), Rosa Alcala.
Translations: Cecilia Vicuña and Rosa Alcalá Stenen Press (2023), Rosa Alcala.
Propriety (poem) What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People/University Press of Kentucky (2023), Rosa Alcala.
Rosa Alcala: The Ambiguity of Culture by Dalia Hajir Borderlands 39 (2023), Rosa Alcala.
How It Started, How It's Going Harper's Magazine December 2022 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Two Poems: "Assimilation" and "When/And" Critical Quarterly 64 Issue 3/ Summer 2022 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Cecilia Vicuña's Desire Lines by Carina del Valle Schorske New York Times Magazine (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Translation of "Terciopelo" section in Juan Felipe Herrera's poetry book, Akrilica Noemi Press (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Counterforms: Roberto Tejada Interviewed by Rosa Alcalá Bomb Magazine Online (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Offering Chicago Review (75th Anniversary Issue) 65 2, 3, & 4 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Three Poems: Visit, Ode to Cheap Taste, The Matrilineal Line The Rumpus March 17, 2022 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Poem: Last Rites Poetry Vol. 219 March 2022/ 6 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Doña Eva TriQuarterly 161 (2022), Alaide Ventura.
Poem: Would You? Adroit Journal 40 (2022), Rosa Alcala.
Toward a Telling: Notes in Memory of Dennis Tedlock Lake Forest Press/ Northwestern UP (2020), Rosa Alcala.

Presentations

Del balbuceo a la construcción poética: Poéticas personales o cómo se crea el poema (2024), Volume Monterrey, MX, Rosa Alcala.
Códigos poéticos originarios y expandidos. Presente y futuros posibles (2024), Volume Monterrey, Mexico, Rosa Alcala.
Lo inefable, lo asémico , y el código poetico orginario: On Erin Mouré & Chus Pato (2024), Volume Mexico City , Rosa Alcala.
Discussion of my book, YOU (2024), Volume Chicago,IL, Rosa Alcala.
What does a Consulting Editor do? (2023), Volume Zoom, Rosa Alcala.
Creative Writing: Past, Present, and Future (2023), Volume UTEP, Rosa Alcala.
Bilingualism & U.S. Poetry (2023), Volume Virtual, Rosa Alcala.
Disrupting the Lexicon: Making Meaning with Polyglot Texts (2022), Volume Philadelphia, PA/virtual, Rosa Alcala.
Sweetly Deranged: Translating Cecilia Vicuña’s Adivinanzas (2021), Volume Chicago, IL, Rosa Alcala.

Grants

Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award (01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023) - Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York

Current/Future Courses

Term	Course	Section
Fall 2025	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	12591
Fall 2025	CRW 3375 - Poetics	12353
Fall 2025	CRW 5398 - Thesis	11390
Fall 2025	CRW 5399 - Thesis	11392
Fall 2025	CRW 5399 - Thesis	14656
Fall 2025	CRW 5399 - Thesis	14663
Summer 2025	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	30879

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term	Course	Section	Syllabus
Fall 2025	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	12591
Fall 2025	CRW 3375 - Poetics	12353
Spring 2024	CRW 5368 - Var Topics in Creative Writing	26797
Fall 2023	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	14128	Syllabus
Summer 2023	CRW 4309 - Independent Study	36119
Spring 2023	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	25589	Syllabus
Spring 2023	CRW 5399 - Thesis	23408
Fall 2022	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	18252	Syllabus
Fall 2022	CRW 5398 - Thesis	13227
Fall 2022	RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research	13621
Spring 2022	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	28303
Spring 2022	CRW 5399 - Thesis	24909
Fall 2021	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	16305
Fall 2021	CRW 5398 - Thesis	15152
Spring 2021	CRW 5382 - Studies in Form	26972
Spring 2021	CRW 5399 - Thesis	20716
Spring 2021	CRW 3373 - Writing in Society	22700
Fall 2020	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	16593
Fall 2020	CRW 5398 - Thesis	13416
Spring 2020	CRW 4304 - Literary Translation	26332	Syllabus
Spring 2020	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	26543	Syllabus
Spring 2020	CRW 5399 - Thesis	20819
Fall 2019	CRW 5382 - Studies in Form	15586
Fall 2019	CRW 5398 - Thesis	10880
Fall 2019	CRW 3373 - Writing in Society	15203
Spring 2019	CRW 4304 - Literary Translation	26955
Spring 2019	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	27344
Spring 2019	CRW 5399 - Thesis	24590
Fall 2018	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	18234	Syllabus
Fall 2018	CRW 5390 - Independent Study	10919
Fall 2018	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	17129	Syllabus
Fall 2018	CRW 5398 - Thesis	10923
Spring 2018	CRW 4304 - Literary Translation	28018
Spring 2018	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	28714
Spring 2018	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	23559
Spring 2018	CRW 5399 - Thesis	20886

Course Evaluations

Term	Course	Section	Evaluation
Fall 2023	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	14128	Evaluation
Spring 2023	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	25589	Evaluation
Fall 2022	CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry	18252	Evaluation
Fall 2021	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	16305	Evaluation
Spring 2021	CRW 5382 - Studies in Form	26972	Evaluation
Spring 2021	CRW 3373 - Writing in Society	22700	Evaluation
Fall 2020	CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing	16593	Evaluation
Spring 2020	CRW 4304 - Literary Translation	26332	Evaluation
Spring 2020	CRW 5370 - Literary Translation	26543	Evaluation

Bio

No info available.

Awards and Honors

Big Other Book Award in Poetry for YOU (finalist) (04/30/2025)
Member, Texas Institute of Letters (Inducted 2019) (01/01/2019-12/31/2019)

Ph D in English, University at Buffalo (2004)

Artistic and Creative Performances and Exhibits

Start Date

2025-03-15

End Date

2025-03-16

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Tucson Festival of Books Panels (discussion and readings)

Start Date

2024-05-09

End Date

2024-05-09

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Presentation of YOU, book of poems

Start Date

2024-04-19

End Date

2024-04-19

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Discussion on Publishing and Poetry Reading with Katie Peterson

Start Date

2024-04-11

End Date

2024-04-11

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Launch Party for YOU

Start Date

2024-01-22

End Date

2024-01-22

Type

Artistic Presentation/Exhibit

Title

"You & the Donkey Cart" (poem)

Start Date

2023-04-12

End Date

2023-04-14

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Phoenix Poets Festival at the University of Chicago

Start Date

2022-12-12

End Date

2023-04-10

Type

Artistic Presentation/Exhibit

Title

Commissioned translation of "The Mapocho Quipu" (poem) by Cecilia Vicuña for Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India

Start Date

2022-06-25

End Date

2022-07-05

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

International Writers Programs, Lines & Spaces Tour to Tbilisi, Georgia

Start Date

2021-01-01

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Other

Title

A chain letter between Julie Patton, Maya Abu Al-Hayat, Marcella Durand, Deborah Richards, and Rosa Alcalá

Start Date

2021-01-01

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s)

Title

Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

2 poems from fray

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

2 poems from MyOTHER TONGUE, translated into Spanish

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

3 poems from fray

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-06-08

Type

Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s)

Title

Book Review by Jose Angel Aragúz: Archiving Lateness: A Chronicle-Review of MyOTHER TONGUE by Rosa Alcalá

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Nonfiction - Book

Title

Contributor

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Global Roll Call Part 3

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Guest Editor

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s)

Title

Review by Andrea Abi-Karam of New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña, ed., trans. Rosa Alcalá

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

Review of Paula Cucurella's Demasiada luz para hacer poesia

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

The Family Photograph: A Collaborative Approach (Prompts Against Anxiety Series)

Start Date

2020-01-01

End Date

2020-12-31

Type

Reviews and Articles About Creative Work(s)

Title

Videotaped discussion of my book Undocumentaries

Start Date

End Date

2024-11-17

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Reading from YOU

Start Date

End Date

2024-10-24

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Cecilia Vicuña's T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading

Start Date

End Date

2024-10-23

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Presentation of my book of poems, YOU

Start Date

End Date

2024-10-05

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Lectura de Poesía Iberoamericana: De punta a punta. De costa a costa

Start Date

End Date

2024-10-04

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Read poems from MyOTHER TONGUE & YOU

Start Date

End Date

2024-09-17

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Presentation of book of poems, YOU

Start Date

End Date

2024-09-16

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Presentation of book of poems, YOU

Start Date

End Date

2024-05-10

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Presentation of book of poems, YOU

Start Date

End Date

2023-05-27

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

The Soul Conveys Itself in Shadow: A Book Celebration

Start Date

End Date

2023-01-27

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Poetry Reading & Discussion with Daniel Bortzutzky and Cecilia Vicuña

Start Date

End Date

2022-10-27

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Chicago Review's 75th Anniversary Celebration

Start Date

End Date

2022-05-10

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Writing in Motherhood/ Escritura y Maternidades

Start Date

End Date

2022-04-23

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Paterson Poetry Festival

Start Date

End Date

2022-04-14

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Folklore Revisited

Start Date

End Date

2022-04-03

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Poetry Festival: Something New (Jersey)

Start Date

End Date

2022-01-25

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Adroit Journal Issue 40 Reading

Start Date

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

4 poems from YOU

Start Date

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Bodies, Presence, Performance

Start Date

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Guest Editor/ September

Start Date

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Poetry - Anthology

Title

Poem: Pyramid Scheme

Start Date

End Date

2021-12-31

Type

Poetry - Print Journal

Title

Poem: You & Amaranta

Start Date

End Date

2021-11-06

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Featured Poet

Start Date

End Date

2021-10-15

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Featured Poet/ Gulf Coast Reading Series

Start Date

End Date

2021-09-24

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Featured Poet/ La Sociedad Para Las Artes Literary Reading

Start Date

End Date

2021-09-22

Type

Other

Title

Interview with radio host for Speak Up Las Cruces

Start Date

End Date

2021-09-13

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Class visit to Roberto Tejada's Graduate Seminar

Start Date

End Date

2021-09-02

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

We Propose a New Law

Start Date

End Date

2021-05-15

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

2021 Pittsburgh International Lit Fest

Start Date

End Date

2021-03-25

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Liquid Stars: Translation, Digression, Transformation (with Cecilia Vicuña)

Start Date

End Date

2021-01-31

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Video: reading poems from YOU

Start Date

End Date

2021-01-01

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

St. Mark's Poetry Project Annual Marathon 2021

Start Date

End Date

2020-12-16

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Guest Poet & Curator

Start Date

End Date

2020-11-13

Type

Invitation as Guest Artist

Title

Class Visit

Start Date

End Date

2020-11-10

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Featured Poet

Start Date

End Date

2020-05-07

Type

Poetry - Online Journal

Title

You Rode a Loop (poem)

Start Date

End Date

2020-01-30

Type

Poetry Reading

Title

Hannelore Quander-Ratee Works in Translation Reading

Publications

Two poems from YOU ("You, Amateur Interpreter" and "You to the Future" Nightboat Books (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Where Snow Falls Every Few Pages Rosa Alcalá on David Shapiro (essay) Teachers & Writers Magazine (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Review of YOU by Christopher Luna Raintaxi Online Edition Winter 2024-2025 (2025), Rosa Alcala.
"inflection" Pantheon Books (2025), Rosa Alcala.
Review of YOU by Brittany Torres Garcia (2025), Rosa Alcala.

Presentations

Del balbuceo a la construcción poética: Poéticas personales o cómo se crea el poema (2024), Volume Monterrey, MX, Rosa Alcala.
Códigos poéticos originarios y expandidos. Presente y futuros posibles (2024), Volume Monterrey, Mexico, Rosa Alcala.
Lo inefable, lo asémico , y el código poetico orginario: On Erin Mouré & Chus Pato (2024), Volume Mexico City , Rosa Alcala.
Discussion of my book, YOU (2024), Volume Chicago,IL, Rosa Alcala.
What does a Consulting Editor do? (2023), Volume Zoom, Rosa Alcala.

Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists Award (01/01/2023 - 12/31/2023) Foundation for Contemporary Arts in New York

Current/Future Courses

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

12591

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 3375 - Poetics

Section

12353

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

11390

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

11392

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

14656

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

14663

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2025

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

30879

Syllabus

Past Courses

Select Term:

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

12591

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2025

Course

CRW 3375 - Poetics

Section

12353

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2024

Course

CRW 5368 - Var Topics in Creative Writing

Section

26797

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

14128

Syllabus

Term

Summer 2023

Course

CRW 4309 - Independent Study

Section

36119

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Term

Spring 2023

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

25589

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2023

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

23408

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

18252

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

13227

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2022

Course

RSRC 4033 - Undergraduate Research

Section

13621

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

28303

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2022

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

24909

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

16305

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2021

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

15152

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CRW 5382 - Studies in Form

Section

26972

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

20716

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CRW 3373 - Writing in Society

Section

22700

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

16593

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

13416

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CRW 4304 - Literary Translation

Section

26332

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

26543

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

20819

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CRW 5382 - Studies in Form

Section

15586

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

10880

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2019

Course

CRW 3373 - Writing in Society

Section

15203

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

CRW 4304 - Literary Translation

Section

26955

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

27344

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2019

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

24590

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

18234

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

CRW 5390 - Independent Study

Section

10919

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

17129

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2018

Course

CRW 5398 - Thesis

Section

10923

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

CRW 4304 - Literary Translation

Section

28018

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

28714

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

23559

Syllabus

Term

Spring 2018

Course

CRW 5399 - Thesis

Section

20886

Syllabus

Term

Fall 2023

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

14128

Evaluation

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Spring 2023

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

25589

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2022

Course

CRW 3372 - Reading and Writing Poetry

Section

18252

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2021

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

16305

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CRW 5382 - Studies in Form

Section

26972

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2021

Course

CRW 3373 - Writing in Society

Section

22700

Evaluation

Term

Fall 2020

Course

CRW 5367 - Advanced Poetry Writing

Section

16593

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CRW 4304 - Literary Translation

Section

26332

Evaluation

Term

Spring 2020

Course

CRW 5370 - Literary Translation

Section

26543

Evaluation

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