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1. Recess

   ... Engage students in an open-ended conversation on what poetry is or can be. This can be a chance to explore, expand, or even challenge previously held ideas about poetry and poets. Below are some starting questions:  What is poetry?  ...

   emsierra - 09/05/2025 - 1:13pm

2. Speedway & Swan Episode 29: VOCA special

   ... audio-video library maintained by the University of Arizona Poetry Readings. Readings by Seamus Heaney in 1976, Adrienne Rich in 1989, ... 1969 and 1975), public reading, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, Modern Languages Auditorium, March 30, 1976. Adrienne Rich | ...

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

3. The Anxiety of “Of”

   ... A linguistic frustration that haunts me decades into my poetry life is an ongoing fight with preposition usage. Some African languages ... the image, and makes it sound like it belongs in a line of poetry. It’s almost too easily poetry, and that’s an unearned ...

   mgoodrich - 09/17/2024 - 10:26am

4. Fragments of Gorgeous Nothings

   ... my future, I ventured to the University of Arizona Poetry Center for a reading by Jen Bervin who would be discussing her work and ... Jen’s opening remarks revealed how it was at the Poetry Center where she listened to her first poetry reading, and briefly ...

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

5. An Interview with Rita Dove

   ... (1993-1995) and recipient of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for  Thomas and Beulah . The author of numerous books, among them ... The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Poetry  (2011). Her drama  The Darker Face of the Earth  premiered ...

   sgzemski - 11/02/2016 - 12:53pm

6. Martín Espada & Odilia Galván Rodriguez, moderated by Mari Herreras

   The Poetry Center is proud to present Martín Espada & Odilia Galván Rodriguez ... and a book signing. This event will be held at the  Poetry Center in the Rubel Room. Called by Sandra Cisneros “the Pablo ... of poems include The Trouble Ball (2011), The Republic of Poetry (2006), Alabanza (2003), Imagine the Angels of Bread (1996), and ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 09/20/2018 - 11:54am

7. Write down to the bone: an Interview with Carlos Cumpián

   ... in Shoulders Gathered by The Waters Anthology (The Poetry Movement, Chicago-Racine 2025). Cumpián cofounded March Abrazo Press ... press in Illinois whose mission continues to be publishing poetry or literary criticism about Chicano, Mexican, Latinas, and Native ...

   mgoodrich - 09/22/2026 - 1:22pm

8. From the Stacks: Charles Simic

   From the Stacks  is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we solicit authors to wander our library and choose ... Since 1967, he has published numerous books of his own poetry, eight books of essays, a memoir, and many of books of translations of ...

   sgzemski - 10/24/2018 - 1:45pm

9. Nathaniel Mackey and Marilyn Crispell

   ... COLLEGE CENTER FOR THE ARTS RECITAL HALL The UA Poetry Center, Chax Press, POG and Poets & Writers, Inc. present an exciting ... Mackey brings at least three traditions to bear on his poetry and prose. Taking from musical traditions that include jazz and other ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/27/2015 - 2:45pm

10. The Way An Ending Never Ends: An Interview with Elizabeth Metzger

    ... and The Spirit Papers , winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry. She has published two chapbooks, Bed, winner of the Sunken Garden ... The Paris Review , The New York Review , TLS , and Poetry . She has received support for her work from The Corporation of Yaddo ...

    mgoodrich - 09/04/2026 - 7:05am

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