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Tuesday, March 04 2025 to Saturday, September 20 2025
Book Objects Live!
Exhibition
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Tuesday, March 04 2025 to Saturday, September 20 2025
Personal Paperback: Photographs by John Charley
Exhibition
September 18, 2025 - 2:00pm to September 18, 2025 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Poems of Hope and Resilience
Community Events
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September 20, 2025 - 10:00am to September 20, 2025 - 12:00pm
Kids Create!
Kids Create, K-12 Educational Events
September 25, 2025 - 7:00pm
Distinguished Visitors in Creative Writing Reading: Josh Riedel and Thomas Dai
Reading & Lecture Series Events
September 27, 2025 - 10:00am to September 27, 2025 - 12:00pm
Using Agency and Comedy to Write About Trauma with Molly McCloy
Community Classes & Workshops
October 08, 2025 - 5:00pm to October 08, 2025 - 7:00pm
Four Modes: Propulsions and Little Engines with Richard Siken
Community Classes & Workshops
October 09, 2025 - 7:00pm
Tom Sanders Memorial Reading: Richard Siken and Mathias Svalina
Reading & Lecture Series Events
October 11, 2025 - 10:00am to October 11, 2025 - 12:00pm
Grief & the Surreal with Mathias Svalina
Community Classes & Workshops
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October 11, 2025 - 4:45pm to October 11, 2025 - 9:15pm
The Poetic Sky (at Kitt Peak National Observatory) with Julie Swarstad Johnson
Community Classes & Workshops
October 16, 2025 - 2:00pm to October 16, 2025 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Mystical Poetry
Community Events
October 18, 2025 - 1:00pm to November 01, 2025 - 3:00pm
Uncanny Activisms: Poems as Spells, Curses, Prayers, Incantations, and Blessings with Cynthia Hogue
Community Classes & Workshops
October 23, 2025 - 7:00pm
Tucson Humanities Festival Reading: Tracy K. Smith
Reading & Lecture Series Events
October 25, 2025 - 11:00am
Dream History Tour with Mathias Svalina (Departing from the Poetry Center)
Community Events
October 30, 2025 - 7:00pm
Reading: Susan Briante and Farid Matuk
Reading & Lecture Series Events
November 01, 2025 - 11:00am
Dream History Tour with Mathias Svalina (Departing from MOCA Tucson)
Community Events
November 06, 2025 - 7:00pm
Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Reading: Karen Emmerich
Reading & Lecture Series Events
November 15, 2025 - 1:00pm
Silently Louder: New music by nonspeaking autistic songwriters, performed by folksinger Brian Laidlaw
Community Events
November 19, 2025 - 5:00pm to November 19, 2025 - 7:00pm
Strangeness, Oddities, and Defamiliarization with Matthew Olzmann
Community Classes & Workshops
November 20, 2025 - 2:00pm to November 20, 2025 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Poetry of Food
Community Events

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