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Announcing the Summer 2025 Season!
Join us for classes, events, and for the 2025 Sealey Challenge!
Announcing the 2025 Free Time Contest for Incarcerated Writers
Submissions will be accepted June 1st through August 15th. Details inside!
15 Facts for 15 Years: Things You Didn't Know About Voca
Fun facts about our newly revamped Voca archive!
Outdoor improvements coming to the Poetry Center this summer!
The College of Humanities will lead the donor-funded renovations this summer.
Why I Love Voca
I would have never come across this poem if it weren't for Voca.
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October 16, 2020
"1918 Union Valley Road, Oklahoma": A Poem by LeAnne Howe
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October 15, 2020
Journeying to Space on Words
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October 9, 2020
Beyond the Obvious: How Does Poetry Create Conditions for Radical Belonging?
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October 2, 2020
Poetry Potluck #6: Culinary Couplets for Kevin Young
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October 1, 2020
Writing Prompt: The Pillow Book and the Art of the List
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September 25, 2020
In Praise of Silence: Camille Dungy’s “Language”
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September 3, 2020
Embracing Chance: Ivy Johnson’s As They Fall
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September 2, 2020
Towards Being Together: To Those Who Were Our First Gods
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September 1, 2020
Learning Poetry Skills Through Songwriting
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August 27, 2020
Writing Prompt: I Remember
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August 12, 2020
Jane Wong's Impossible Map as Inspiration
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August 7, 2020
Slow Violence & Nuclear Poems
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July 30, 2020
Monsoon Season in the Library
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July 17, 2020
Victoria Chang’s “OBIT”
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July 16, 2020
Make Your Own Weathergrams
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