Hosted by Olatunde Osinaike, Mary Jo Bang, and Eugenia Leigh
 
 

As Tucson enters monsoon season, here is a replenishing wellspring for Dear Body of Water. We hope that you will add your voice to the growing chorus of water.
 
 

A big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry!
 
 

“We have a right to beautiful things”
 
 

Marianne Moore called poems “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” and I like to think when you dip into the Voca archives, you get to amble that garden, you get to touch those toads. 
 
 

People fear poetry because they don’t “understand” it. This is what they say. But I suspect people fear poetry because it shakes the tree of the known, uses language and uncanny forms to facet and...
 
 

Art For Justice

See the work from leading poets as part of this project that seeks to confront racial inequities within the criminal justice system to promote social justice and change.