Galleries of Contemporary Art to unite poetry and art in Sept. 27 event

The UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art will host SAY WHAT: Poetry + Art from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 27 at the campus gallery, GOCA1420.

The event will feature award-winning Colorado Latino/a poets Carolina Ebeid, Eduardo Gabrieloff and Juan Morales sharing their works with a background of the We are You Project now showing at the gallery in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month.

The event and parking are free. Refreshments will be served.

Carolina Ebeid was the 2012-2014 Stadler Center for Poetry fellow at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Penn. She earned awards and fellowships from CantoMundo, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Her work appears in journals such asThe Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Memorious, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, andPoetry, among others. She holds an master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Texas’ Michener Center for Writers and is working to complete a doctoral degree at the University of Denver. She helps edit poetry at Better: Culture & Lit, an online journal.

Eduardo Gabrieloff was born in Cali, Colombia and moved to Colorado when he was four years old. Now a Denver resident, his work has been published or is forthcoming in Bluestem, Luna Luna, Ninth Letter, The Journal of Ordinary Thought, Leaf Litter, and [PANK].

Juan Morales is the author of “Friday and the Year that Followed.” His poems appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Sugar House Review, North Dakota Review, and are forthcoming in Monster Fancy magazine, Huizache magazine, and elsewhere. He is the editor of Pilgrimage magazine, a CantoMundo fellow, and the director of creative writing at Colorado State University, Pueblo.

For more information about the We are You Project also showing at GOCA 1420, please visit UCCS to open We Are You Project as part of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

GOCA is a regional hub of contemporary art, culture, and conversation. By featuring world-class artists, hosting artist and expert talks, and offering meaningful events, GOCA engages UCCS students, faculty, staff and Pikes Peak Region community members in contemporary culture and life.

GOCA is a contemporary arts organization with two galleries, one founded on the UCCS campus in 1981 and a satellite downtown location opened in 2010 in the Plaza of the Rockies building.