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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.

purple flowers in front of a seascape

February 26, 2022
Resilience: Today & Tomorrow Poetry Honorable Mentions
Features

water in the shape of a lightbulb

February 24, 2022
Poetry is like water: a conversation between H.R. Webster and Demetrius “Meech” Buckley
Features, Interviews

photo of an open book with poetry and drawings

February 16, 2022
The process of a drawing being made
Features

a row of pink and red paper hearts / photo by Kelly Sikkema

February 15, 2022
Virtual Kids Create: February is for odes!
Education

February 8, 2022
Poetry Out Loud: Virtual Verses & State Finals
Education

man's hand typing on a keyboard with a yellow watch nearby

February 2, 2022
Give Me the Time and Space: How to Land a Writing Residency
Features

Person with a hat, glasses, and medium length hair stands on a porch

February 1, 2022
Professional Development: Teaching Embodiment through Zine Making
Education

Marble notebook and container of pencils against a gray background

January 25, 2022
Adjusting Expectations: A Toolkit for Virtual Learning
Education

sign at a protest that says "no nature no future"

January 25, 2022
Poetry Center and Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill Present Future Climate Proverbs Events
Articles

January 19, 2022
Some Notes on "Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics"
Features

Abstract art in purple, pink & yellow. Photo by Markus Spiske.

January 18, 2022
Virtual Kids Create: January is for art & poetry!
Education

January 11, 2022
Poetry Center and Partners Present The Tucson Dream-History Tour with Poet Mathias Svalina
Articles

Smiling person with a blue button up

January 11, 2022
Poetry Out Loud: Meet Teré Fowler-Chapman
Education

Snow flake image by Zdeněk Macháček

January 4, 2022
Brave Books: Winter Zine Prompts
Education

Aerial view of the neighborhood from Sentinel Peak

December 21, 2021
BKL Stories: At the base of the Black Hill
Education