Lucas Martínez and Sophia Terazawa Poetry Reading

Join us for a reading with poets Lucas Martínez and Sophia Terazawa. Lucas Martínez will be reading from their latest work, and Sophia Terazawa will be reading from her new poetry collection, Oracular Maladies. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.

Lucas Martínez is an artist, teacher, and language worker. He holds a BA from Lewis & Clark College and an MFA from UVA. Lucas has received fellowships from the Virginia Bibliographical Society and UVA, and was a fellow in residence at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. They have translated the work of Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Soledad Fariña, and Ulises Carrión. They translate for Arkansas GRITA. They are a radio DJ at WTJU 91.1 FM Charlottesville, and run a monthly film series called Movie Friend with their friends. Find out more at lucasmartinez.net.

Sophia Terazawa writes prose, poetry, and performance scores that investigate colonial memory, intergenerational haunting, and the incantatory possibilities of hybrid forms. Her debut novel, Tetra Nova (Deep Vellum, 2025)—a polyvocal fiction that moves between a mother’s exile from Saigon and a daughter’s reckoning in the American present—was adapted into a full ballet with the Roanoke Ballet Theatre and launched at Café OTO in London. She is also the author of three poetry collections, most recently Oracular Maladies (Noemi Press, 2026). She currently teaches in the MFA Creative Writing Program at Virginia Tech.