Five Poetry Lesson Plans Inspired by Music & Sound

These lesson plans are sure to inspire playful, thought-provoking, and multimodal learning!
 
Sister Rosetta Tharpe plays guitar on stage
 
vocalisms #17: Li-Young Lee

Did you miss Li-Young Lee's reading? We've got you covered with voca!
 
 
On "Mississippi" by Ann Fisher-Wirth & Maude Schuyler Clay

"The poems here do what ekphrastic work does best: ...uncovering something that the photograph alone can’t quite show us."
 
 
Spotlight on Women in Kurdish Poetry

Holly Mason shines a light on Kurdish poets and translations
 
 
vocalisms #16: Maxine Kumin

The poet reads "After Love" from her visit in 1974
 
 
UA Poetry Center Partners with CantoMundo

The three-year partnership will bring Latinx poets to Tucson
 
 
Introducing Brave Books 2019-2020 & Libros Para el Viaje Tucson!

Our new children's area is up, and this year we'll be hosting a multi-lingual book drive
 
 
Emerge x Art for Justice

Erasures Against Mass Incarceration
 
 
Announcing the Spring 2020 Reading & Lecture Series

Here's what's coming up as we begin a new decade!
 
 
Announcing our Art for Justice '19 -'20 Ambassadors

Ambassadors will join us beginning this fall for our next season of Art for Justice
 
 

Laverne Harrell Clark Collection

The LaVerne Harrell Clark Photographic Collection is a unique archive that features more than 1,000 digitized portraits of poets and writers, many previously unpublished or newly available.