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Lunch with Featured Speaker Mark Arax and Poetry Reading with Joseph Rios

Lunch with Featured Speaker Poetry Reading Joseph Rios, Poet Laureate of Fresno, California, 2023–2025 Joseph Rios was born in the San Joaquin Valley in 1987. He is a Xicano writer and the author of Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations (Omnidawn, 2017), winner of a 2018 American Book Award. A Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, Rios is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from Community of Writers, CantoMundo, Letras Latinas, and the California Arts Council. Rios lives on Yokuts land in Fresno, California, where he serves as poet laureate. In 2024, he received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. Featured Speaker Mark Arax, Author and Journalist Mark Arax has been called a “21st Century John Steinbeck” for his books that pry open the soul of California. A writer of essays, history, biography and journalism, he is a two-time winner of the California Book Award and a recipient of Stanford University's William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent work, "The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California," a national bestseller, has been hailed by critics as one of the most important books ever written about the West. The New York Times has named the “The Dreamt Land” and one of Mark’s previous books, the “King of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of a Secret American Empire,” to a short list of California’s best literature over the past 150 years. Date Wed February 26th - Thu February 27th 2025, All day Event Sponsor The Bill Lane Center for the American West The California Water Institute at Fresno State The Maddy Institute Central Valley Community Foundation San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District