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Announcing the Spring 2025 Season at the Poetry Center!

Join us for readings by Ilya Kaminsky, Katie Farris, Kimberly Blaeser, Terrance Hayes, Niki Herd, Divya Victor, and more!

Poetry Center Spring 2025 Reading Series

Spring 2025: Classes and Workshops

General Registration open NOW!

Remembering Nikki Giovanni in Her Own Voice

Honoring her legacy through the Voca archive.

Announcing the 6th Annual Haiku Hike

Submissions open now!

New Voca playlist: Poems of Resilience and Hope

A playlist for moments when we need encouragement.

Image reads, "3,2,1 zines!" and has a young person with long hair reading a comic

October 4, 2021
Brave Books: Zines and Zine Libraries
Education

September 28, 2021
Register for Poetry Out Loud!
Education

A crescent moon in the cloudy sky

September 21, 2021
Virtual Kids Create: September is for Metaphors!
Education

A colorful book display set against a bright window

September 14, 2021
Celebrating Children's & YA Literature of the US-México Borderlands!
Education

A pale hand holds a sign that says, "Climate justice now." Photo by Markus Spiske.

August 31, 2021
K-8 lesson plans for a changing climate
Education

A person with curly gray hair and an ochre tee shirt on sits smiling in front of a brick wall

August 31, 2021
Y/our Words Matter: Zines in the Classroom
Education

Cover of Sofia's Awesome Tamale Day

August 17, 2021
Writing Sofia’s Awesome Tamale Day
Education

August 5, 2021
University of Arizona Poetry Center to Administer Statewide Poetry Recitation Competition
Articles, Education

Kids handprints in blue and red, photo by Bernard Hermant

July 20, 2021
Education Afield: Youth Arts Program
Education

Book that reads "Even when we bend" with a hummingbird, snowflake, and roses on it

July 6, 2021
Even When We Bend: 6-12 Anthology
Education

Book that reads "Imagine if we could fly" with a bird on it, grass, and a blue background

June 22, 2021
Imagine if We Could Fly: K-5 Anthology
Education

Dirty paint brushes in various colors, image by Rhonda K

June 8, 2021
Five Poetry Lesson Plans for Young Artists
Education

A red neon question mark against a black background, photo by Simone Secci

May 25, 2021
If We Could Ask 2020 & 2021 Anything: What Second Graders Have to Say About the Pandemic
Education

Exhibit poster from "A History of Walls: The Borders We Build"

May 11, 2021
Education Afield: High School Poetry on Walls & Borders
Education

A black and white photo of a metal sculpture, "counter-corner relief"

April 27, 2021
The Poem is a Thing We Ought to Touch: On Reading Poetry with Kids
Education