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What makes us human is that we marked up walls
We have a right to public art. We have a right to see beautiful things on our property.
A love letter to Voca
Marianne Moore called poems “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” and I like to think when you dip into the Voca archives, you get to amble that garden, you get to touch those toads.
Something Not Fully Flourished: Pastorals, Ecolyric, and the First Day of Spring
Something in spring is an ending, unable to root.
Poetry is How We Heal
“I had never taken the time in my life before that night to write a poem.”
Bright blocks of colors and bold lines
Get to know Sasha Lewis — and the Tucson-poem behind her newest mural!
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February 16, 2024
A Living Eulogy for Literary Twitter
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February 13, 2024
2024 Arizona Poetry Out Loud Semifinals!
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February 9, 2024
Ada Limón’s “What I Didn’t Know Before”
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February 4, 2024
Submit Now: A “Visual Poetry of Tucson” Zine!
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February 2, 2024
“These kind of wounds,/They last and they last”: On Taylor Swift, Wounded Reading, and Metaphor
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February 1, 2024
“Dear Body of Water” Chronicles Love for Water Across the Globe – Add your voice to the chorus!
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January 30, 2024
5 Brand New K-5 Lesson Plans from Writing the Community!
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January 26, 2024
NEW on Poetry Centered: Sawako Nakayasu - Grief Textures
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January 19, 2024
Singing the Body Ecological: “Back on the Ridge”
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January 16, 2024
Spontaneous Eulogies: Poetry of Praise as a Natural Vessel for Grieving
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January 12, 2024
How to Be Untamable
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January 9, 2024
A love letter to Voca
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January 5, 2024
Writing Prompt (with Friends): The Surrealist Q & A Game
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January 2, 2024
First-Person/Third-Person: Strategies for Revision
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December 21, 2023
FOR TODAY: An Interview with Carolyn Hembree
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