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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.

Portrait of Kay Ulanday Barrett. Photo by Jess X. Chen.

May 22, 2021
Poetry & Environmental Justice: Two Poems by Kay Ulanday Barrett
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paper boat on water

May 15, 2021
Seeking Joy
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May 12, 2021
Building a Community of Gift-Givers
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Photo of trees burned in a forest fire.

April 21, 2021
Earth Day 2021: Poetry and Justice
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sunflower bouquet in a vase against a newspaper background

April 17, 2021
“Grief Scatters”: The Poetics of Loss Without Elegy
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April 14, 2021
An Art for Justice Introduction to Mariposas Sin Fronteras by Karolina Lopez
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Photo of a page spread from What the South Wind Says in red and green paper with dark green embroidery.

April 8, 2021
Rare Books: Beautiful Books Made from Everyday Materials
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Layali Lubnan on a white plate with a wooden spoon

March 26, 2021
Poetry Potluck #9: Layali Lubnan for Aracelis Girmay
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a drawer full of letterpress letters of various shapes and sizes

March 19, 2021
Printer's Devils: A Case Study
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silhouette of a dancer in a tunnel

March 12, 2021
“Beautifully fine residual vectors ...” on reading Sawako Nakayasu’s Some Girls Walk Into the Country They Are From
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Image from Be Hold a friendship book showing a line drawing of two friends surrounded by ships

March 3, 2021
Writing Prompt: National Grammar Day
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brown cattails in the foreground of a natural landscape featuring a river and rolling hills

February 27, 2021
Placing Queerness in the Natural World: Minnie Bruce Pratt’s "Crime Against Nature"
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Eighteen colorful books of poetry arranged on a brown wooden table.

February 18, 2021
Celebrating Black History Month with New Books
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February 17, 2021
An Art for Justice Interview with Sonoran Prevention Works Executive Director Haley Coles
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Detail from a collage postcard, showing a repeated image of a woman and the words "hi guys, thanks for waiting..."

February 3, 2021
Writing Prompt: Postcard Poems
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