V. Penelope Pelizzon's latest book is Whose Flesh Is Flame, Whose Bone Is Time. Her first book, Nostos, won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. Pelizzon's other awards include an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, and a "Discovery"/ The Nation Award.

This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA.