TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Rachel Tzvia Back will read from her original poetry at The University of Alabama on Monday, Feb. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in Morgan Auditorium, as part of this year’s Bankhead Visiting Writers Series in conjunction with the Chair in Judaic Studies and the UA Press.

Back is the author of “Azimuth,” a book of poetry published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2001, and an academic work, “Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe,” forthcoming from the UA Press as part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Her poems have appeared in “American Poetry Review,” “Ariel,” “The Tel-Aviv Review,” and the anthologies “Dreaming the Actual: Israeli Women Poets of the 90s” and “The Defiant Muse: Feminist Poems from Antiquity to the Present, A Bilingual Anthology.”

Back is the eighth generation of her family in Palestine. She is a lecturer in English literature and a translator at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. She will give an informal lecture at noon Monday to a religious studies class. All events are free and open to the public.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, the University of Alabama Program in Creative Writing, the department of English, and the College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, please contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.