Butler University’s spring 2014 Vivian S. Delbrook Visiting Writers Series presents poet Victor Hernandez Cruz at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall. All talks in the series are free and open to the public without tickets.

Cruz is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including In the Shadow of Al-Andalus (Coffee House Press, 2011); The Mountain in the Sea (Coffee House Press, 2006); and Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000 (Coffee House Press, 2001), which was selected for the shortlist of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the International Griffin Poetry Prize. Cruz is a co-founder of both the East Harlem Gut Theatre in New York and the Before Columbus Foundation and a former editor of Umbra Magazine. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and San Diego, San Francisco State College, and the University of Michigan. His honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was elected as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2008.