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1. From the Stacks: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

   From the Stacks  is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose ... she co-authored with her husband, Drew Nelson. Vaunda’s poetry has been published in Cricket and Cicada magazines. Her latest ...

   dgoblirsch - 05/01/2018 - 1:43pm

2. "Facts You Did Not Know About Me": Rhetoric, Persuasion, and Speaking in Character

   ... Give students a brief introduction to voca, the Poetry Center’s online audio/video library. Introduce the idea of “character” in poetry: poets often speak in terms of an “I,” which may or may not be autobiographical. Persona poetry, for example, usually functions as a dramatic monologue in the voice of ...

   coh-web - 05/03/2016 - 4:46pm

3. Art For Justice Reading: Nikky Finney

   ... Finney, who will read from her work commissioned for the Poetry Center's Art for Justice grant.  After the reading, there will be a short Q&A and a book signing. The University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Art for Justice grant funds a three-year project that will ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:34pm

4. We Are Not Here to Save You: Black Women & the Documentary Poem

   ... Lorde    Writing, in particular the field of poetry, is contributing to the movement of bearing witness to a revolution, ... Without Altar , is out now from Noemi Press. Mendez has had poetry and essays published by  The Acentos Review, The New England Review, ...

   sgzemski - 08/19/2022 - 10:00am

5. Joyful Goofiness: Incarcerated Youth Find Writing Mojo with “Provoracles”

   ...   For two years, I provided remote poetry lessons for fellow English teacher Daniel Lithgow to deliver to his ... facility on Ajo Way in Tucson. As a teaching artist with UA Poetry Center’s Writing the Community collaboration with CAPE, I designed ...

   dgoblirsch - 03/04/2025 - 6:05pm

6. Where Was I | Adventures in Reading: Marianne Boruch

   ... book.  Where Was I  is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we ask authors for whom this is true ... in this small startling narrative define the power of poetry for me, in whatever ass-backwards way. Number one is the potent even ... Of course it’s Emily Dickinson’s old saw that good poetry made the top of her head fly off. Meaning at least: it stopped her, and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:35pm

7. Behind the Erasures: What Mary Ruefle noticed

   ... Johnson During Mary Ruefle’s visit to the Poetry Center for her reading on September 26, I had the privilege to walk ... this exhibit, Ruefle created an erasure especially for the Poetry Center using a document by our founder, Ruth Stephan. In 1973, Stephan ...

   mgoodrich - 03/11/2026 - 4:05pm

8. An Interview with Natalie Shapero

   ... Shapero in advance of her reading here at the Poetry Center on March 14 at 7 PM. ]   Pernille Larsen: How ... Natalie Shapero  is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University .  Her most recent poetry collection is  Hard ...

   sgzemski - 04/08/2019 - 7:32am

9. Our Winter Closure: Making Space for Books

   ... when you run out of space? It's a fair question: the Poetry Center now has more than 50,000 books. When I hear it, I'm usually ... will be closed to visitors from Dec. 17-Jan. 21.  The Poetry Center adds about 1200 books to our collections every year, and we keep ...

   ssk - 01/21/2020 - 9:53am

10. From the Stacks: Joshua Beckman

    ... Sato A Purchase in the White Botanica: The Collected Poetry of Piero Heliczer , ed. Gerard Malanga and Andelm Hollo Selected ... sharing favorite items from our library of contemporary poetry. ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 10/06/2021 - 4:35pm

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