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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.

Abandoned bumper cars covered in greenery at Chernobyl

March 27, 2020
Nuclear Syntax: Atkinson & Chernobyl
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March 17, 2020
Poetry & Protest Contest: Poetry Honorable Mentions
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March 3, 2020
Poetry & Refusal
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February 21, 2020
On re-reading, and teaching, Layli Long Soldier’s "Whereas"
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February 4, 2020
Brave Books: Meet Alleycat Murals
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The hobgoblin Robin Goodfellow dances, surrounded by witches

January 28, 2020
In James Woodruss' Shakespeare-Inspired Song Cycle, the Bard Goes Country
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January 27, 2020
On "Mississippi" by Ann Fisher-Wirth & Maude Schuyler Clay
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January 2, 2020
Spotlight on Women in Kurdish Poetry
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Photo of full shelving space in the Poetry Center's Archives room

November 26, 2019
Our Winter Closure: Making Space for Books
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October 30, 2019
Climate Change, Power, and Poetry
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October 16, 2019
“Green Perspectives”: Laynie Browne’s In Garments Worn by Lindens, and Rosemarie Waldrop’s Lawn of Excluded Middle
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October 8, 2019
Let Us Never Be Rescued From This Mess: Cooking, Decay & Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s "Baked Goods"
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October 3, 2019
Place, Time, & Aloneness: Meditating on Two Poems and Autumn’s Arrival
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September 13, 2019
Oliver Baez Bendorf’s "Advantages of Being Evergreen"
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August 28, 2019
Projective Verse and Passing Across the Field of the Page
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