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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.

cover image of chapbook "Mestiza" by Marina Rivera

March 6, 2021
vocalisms #44: Marina Rivera
Columns

Aerial shot of Plovdiv, Bulgaria in the autumn / photo by Deniz Fuchidzhiev

March 3, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: Biking in Bulgaria
Education

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
Features

March 2, 2021
Congratulations to the Poetry Out Loud Southern Regional Semi-Finalists!
Education

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"
Features

A mural of extended hands in maroon, bright blue, aqua, and yellow.

February 25, 2021
Writing Prompt: A Renga for Connection
Articles

Kids with their backs turned to the camera in baile folklorico dress / photo by Delia Wagner

February 24, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: A Weird Day Of Dancing
Education

Daddy long legs spider on the dirt, photo by Ethan Unzicker

February 23, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: The Visit
Education

Eighteen colorful books of poetry arranged on a brown wooden table.

February 18, 2021
Celebrating Black History Month with New Books
Features

February 17, 2021
An Art for Justice Interview with Sonoran Prevention Works Executive Director Haley Coles
Features, Interviews

A picture of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia Lorca

February 16, 2021
Virtual Kids Create: February 2021 Edition
Education

Camille T. Dungy stands in front of a gray brick wall, head tilted downward, slightly smiling

February 13, 2021
vocalisms #43: Camille T. Dungy
Columns

A single red rose sits on top of pages full of text, spread out

February 11, 2021
On "Love Notes: Featuring the Poetry of Richard Siken and Catherine Wing"
Articles

Soccer ball resting in the grass / photo by Johann Rösch

February 9, 2021
Voices from Paolo Freire: Grandparents' House
Education

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
Features