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Tuesday, October 07 2025 to Saturday, February 14 2026
From the Archives
Exhibition
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 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
Two white, domed observatories sit on a ridge line with a starry night sky behind.
November 15, 2025 - 3:30pm to November 15, 2025 - 8:30pm
The Poetic Sky (at Kitt Peak National Observatory) with Julie Swarstad Johnson
Community Classes & Workshops
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
November 20, 2025 - 7:00pm
Reading: Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann
Reading & Lecture Series Events
November 22, 2025 - 10:00am to November 22, 2025 - 12:00pm
Look Up, The Sky Is Falling: Ascendant and Descendant Gestures in the Poem with Vievee Francis
Community Classes & Workshops
December 03, 2025 - 7:00pm
 A Bagley Wright Lecture by Anselm Berrigan
Reading & Lecture Series Events
December 04, 2025 - 7:00pm
Reading: Anselm Berrigan
Reading & Lecture Series Events
December 18, 2025 - 2:00pm to December 18, 2025 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Poetry Jam
Community Events
January 15, 2026 - 2:00pm to January 15, 2026 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Poetry of Change
Community Events
February 19, 2026 - 2:00pm to February 19, 2026 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: The Work of David Wagoner
Community Events
March 19, 2026 - 2:00pm to March 19, 2026 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Singularity Poems
Community Events
April 16, 2026 - 2:00pm to April 16, 2026 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: Poetry of Healing
Community Events
May 21, 2026 - 2:00pm to May 21, 2026 - 3:30pm Arizona Time
Oro Valley Poetry Circle: On the Work of Ross Gay and the Poetry of Joy
Community Events