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Poetry Center’s Audiovisual Archive Voca Launches New Website and Accessibility Features

Find readings from 1963 to today

Strangely Alive: Poets Upsetting Adjective Order

Sandra Marchetti writes about the power of the right words in the right order

The Tiny Crack: 6-12 Anthology

Students in our education programs share their writing

A cartoon-style anthology cover featuring a clock, broken chains, and two birds, and the title "The Tiny Crack"

The Future Sounds Like Cheerful Laughing: K-5 Anthology

Read some of the poems from Writing the Community

Book with rain and plants on it, with the title, "The Future Sounds Like Cheerful Laughing"

Poetry Center Awarded Continuing Art for Justice Grant

We are thrilled to continue our initiatives and pivot to new endeavors

June 3, 2022
Poetry Center’s Audiovisual Archive Voca Launches New Website and Accessibility Features
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May 18, 2022
Richard Howard: In Memoriam
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April 19, 2022
Poetry Center Partners with Tucson Tome Gnome for Poets Laureate Giveaway
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March 16, 2022
2022 Arizona Poetry Out Loud Champion: Oscar Landa Samano
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sign at a protest that says "no nature no future"

January 25, 2022
Poetry Center and Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill Present Future Climate Proverbs Events
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January 11, 2022
Poetry Center and Partners Present The Tucson Dream-History Tour with Poet Mathias Svalina
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New reception area and gallery space, 2021

December 17, 2021
Preserving the Poetry Center, From 2015-2021
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December 9, 2021
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow - 2021 Writing Challenge Winners & Honorable Mentions
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December 8, 2021
Announcing Spring 2022 Classes & Workshops
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December 7, 2021
Announcing the Spring 2022 Reading & Lecture Series
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November 16, 2021
Poetry Center Announces $135,000 Mellon Foundation Grant to Caption Audiovisual Archive Voca
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November 1, 2021
Announcing the Colleen Burns Programs Endowment at the University of Arizona Poetry Center
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October 29, 2021
UA Poetry Center Program Asked Creative Writers Who are Incarcerated: How Do You Manifest Resilience Inside Prison?
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September 18, 2021
Announcing Fall 2021 Programs at the Poetry Center
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August 27, 2021
Outside Exhibits to Tell Stories of Tucson Communities through Virtual Reality
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