September 21, 2026 | 7 pm @ University of Tennessee
The University of Tennessee Creative Writing Program presents a reading by poetNatalie Scenters-Zapico. The reading takes placeMonday, Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Lindsay Young Auditorium of John C. Hodges Library on the UT Campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. She is the author of three collections of poetry,My Perfect Cognate(Copper Canyon Press September 2025),Lima :: Limón(Copper Canyon Press 2019) andThe Verging Cities(Center for Literary Publishing 2015).Winner of Yale University’s Windham Campbell Prize (2021), she has held a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation (2018), a Lannan Literary Fellowship (2017), and a CantoMundo Fellowship (2015).
Her first book, The Verging Cities, won the PEN/America Joyce Osterweil Award (2016), the GLCA New Writer's Award (2016), and the Utah Book Award (2016). Her latest poems have been published or are forthcoming in publications likeThe Paris Review,The New Republic,Yale Review,Kenyon Review,Colorado Review,New England Review,Best American Poetry 2024and more. She teaches in the undergraduate and MFA creative writing programs at the University of South Florida and lives in Tampa with her husband, young son, suegros, and little dog.
For select poems and more, seeNatalie Scenters-Zapico’spage at thePoetry Foundation.
Category: Poetry