Poets Eduardo Corral and Dan Rosenberg, alumni of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 5, in Prairie Lights Books and on a live stream through the UI Writing Universitywebsite.

With Slow LightningCorral became the first Latino poet to receive the Yale Younger Poets Prize. He also won the 2011 Whiting Award, a Discover/The Nation Award, and a New Millennium Writings Award.

"The border is a line that marks difference," Corral has explained. "On one side, the American narrative; on the other, the Mexican narrative. Identity, for me, functions like the borderlands: a site of hybridization, of interlingualism...

"I'm a coyote. But of instead of smuggling people across the desert, I transport words across the white of the page."

Rosenberg's first book,The Crushing Organ, won the 2011 American Poetry Journal Book Prize, leading to its publication this year.

He is also the author of the chapbook A Thread of Hands, and his poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in journals including Subtropics, Conduit, Thermos, and Third Coast. He teaches at the University of Georgia and co-edits the poetry journal Transom.

The Writers' Workshop is a unit of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Graduate College. For information about UI literary events, visit the new Arts Iowa website.