Ofelia Zepeda's poetry featured via Tucson Department of Transportation public art project:
Oct. 5, 2010
Neto's Tucson: Heed rocks on North Mountain - they carry messages of beauty
Ernesto Portillo Jr.
Arizona Daily Star
Posted: Sunday, October 3, 2010
Along a mile stretch of North Mountain Avenue, poetry is strewn, etched on small boulders, in native Tohono O'odham and immigrant English.
Most of the poems, between East Ft. Lowell and East Roger roads, are odes to our desert, its colors, creatures, smells and vistas.
The poems were written by Ofelia Zepeda, a University of Arizona Regents Professor of linguistics and published poet and writer. She is also author of the first book of grammar on the Tohono O'odham language.
While her poetry has been widely lauded and published in...