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Jan. 28, Wednesday -- Francisco X. Alarcón, award-winning poet, children's author and professor of Spanish and classics at Â鶹´«Ã½, will share a glimpse into the art of crafting words and images that seize our hearts and minds at 10:30 a.m. and again at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at Â鶹´«Ã½. Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and children. The talks are part of the Â鶹´«Ã½ School of Education's Words Take Wing series, now in its fifth year. The series is presented by the Children's Center at Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento, with additional support from Â鶹´«Ã½ Children's Hospital. For more information, visit .

Alarcón is the author of 10 volumes of poetry. His most recent book of bilingual poetry for children, "Animal Poems of the Iguazú/Animalario del Iguazú," was published by Children’s Book Press of San Francisco last summer.