In this installment, Jen Bervin shares some books from our collection. Listen to the artist's talk she gave following on Voca.

Rather than choosing a few works, Bervin opted to select a number of works by writers who live in or are affiliated with Tucson. Her annotated selection of works included Sadie Grindstaff, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, TC Tolbert, Susan Briante, Dot Devota, Farid Matuk, Richard Siken, Brandon Shimoda, Richard Shelton, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Chika Sagaua, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Mary Ruefle, Jerome Rothenburg, Boyer Rickel, Logan Phillips, Maureen Owen, Steve Orlen, Lorine Niedecker, Tenney Nathanson, Sheila E. Murphy, Ander Monson, Jane Miller, Bark Beetle, Dan Featherston, Larry Eigner, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Barbara Cully, Brian Blanchfield, Deborah Bernhardt, Charles Alexander, Sawako Nakayasu, CS Giscombe, and Poetry Center staff Tyler Meier, Sarah Kortmeier, Cybele Knowles, Julie Swarstad Johnson, Annie Guthrie, Hannah Ensor, Wendy Burk, and Renee Angle. 

From the Stacks features writers from our Reading & Lecture Series sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry.