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1. Where Was I | Adventures in Reading: Patrick Rosal

   ... book. Where Was I  is a regular series on the Poetry Center Blog in which we ask authors for whom this is true ... a workshop with people who were much more fluent in the poetry world, not just the literature itself, but the culture that surrounds ... (just a couple years earlier) to books, and even later to poetry. I was the son of an ex-priest, my parents immigrants from the ...

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

2. Embracing Chance: Ivy Johnson’s As They Fall

   ... writing, a concept Urayoán Noel discusses in Episode 4 of Poetry Centered , in which he performs his poem “Molecular Modular.” ...

   jswrstad - 09/26/2020 - 8:37am

3. Reading: Vievee Francis and Matthew Olzmann

   ... Live Vievee Francis is the author of four books of poetry: The Shared World ; Forest Primeval , winner of the 2017 Kingsley ... , winner of the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize; and Blue-Tail Fly . Forthcoming are a memoir, Ugly , and ...

   valenzuela9 - 11/01/2025 - 10:29am

4. Paper Children: Unearthing the Unwritten in Undocumented Stories

   ... existed?” Sylvia Chan, photographed at the Poetry Center by Becka Ranta (2018). One in three Chinese ... Of having the documents to prove it. Chinese poetry written by detainees at Angel Island Immigration Station in San ...

   mgoodrich - 01/13/2026 - 10:35am

5. Speedway and Swan Episode 42: Chris Martin

   ... * Chris Martin is the author of three books of poetry and is the co-founder of Unrestricted Interest , an organization ... to transforming the lives of people with autism through poetry. His first collection of poems, American Music (Copper Canyon Press, ...

   sgzemski - 11/01/2018 - 12:01pm

6. Writing Prompt: Celebrate Your Name with Ghazals

   ... these layers lend themselves well to contemplation through poetry, and the ghazal is a verse form that specifically incorporates the ... more ghazals at the Academy of American Poets or the Poetry Foundation Now, try writing a ghazal that celebrates your name. ...

   jswrstad - 10/02/2021 - 12:06pm

7. Morgan Lucas Schuldt Memorial Reading: Shayla Lawz and Aria Aber

   ... poets. This event is presented annually as part of the Poetry Center’s Reading and Lecture Series, and is named after poet and ... Press, 2019), won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry and a Whiting Award. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker , ...

   valenzuela9 - 07/26/2022 - 10:11am

8. Celebrating Tucson's K-12 Poets!

   ... our Writing the Community program will read at the Poetry Center to celebrate the launch of our K-5th and 6-12th grade ... of what the day will entail, as well as the incredible poetry contained within each anthology, we thought we'd share our introductions ...

   dgoblirsch - 05/28/2019 - 10:27am

9. "Not Merely Because of the Unknown that was Stalking Toward Them" by Jenny Boully

   ... is a contrasting temporal, or rather a-temporal, force: poetry.   As Boully vividly demonstrates, poetry acts as a powerful “ presence -ing” of both thought and experience ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 07/19/2016 - 2:25pm

10. Teaching in the Prisons: An Interview with Richard Shelton

    ...   Richard Shelton is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison ... the University of Arizona and has been associated with the Poetry Center since its founding.  Elizabeth Maria Falcón: So before ...

    Anonymous (not verified) - 01/14/2016 - 10:15am

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