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1. Throwback Thursday: Li-Young Lee

   Throwback Thursday is a weekly feature on the Poetry Center Blog in which we present an author reading one poem from our  voca  archives. For more audio and video of poetry, including by the featured author, visit   voca . This ...

   sgzemski - 08/24/2016 - 3:45pm

2. Rescheduled: Poets Pedal

   ... Living Streets Alliance , the  University of Arizona Poetry Center , and  Edible Baja Arizona  for  Poets Pedal , an afternoon of biking, poetry, and gastronomy. Listen to poetry by Tucson poets  Wendy Burk ,  ...

   sgzemski - 02/27/2017 - 11:46am

3. Throwback Thursday: Douglas Kearney

   Throwback Thursday is a weekly feature on the Poetry Center Blog in which we present an author reading one poem from our  voca  archives. For more audio and video of poetry, including by the featured author, visit   voca . This ...

   sgzemski - 09/05/2016 - 1:24pm

4. Vickie Vértiz on her Summer Residency experience

   Founded in 1994, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Summer Residency Program offers poets the opportunity to ... stay in Tucson, Arizona. Residents are housed in the Poetry Center’s studio apartment, located just steps away the Center’s renowned library of contemporary poetry. Residents also receive a $500 stipend and give a public reading in the ...

   sgzemski - 02/16/2017 - 10:03am

5. vocalisms #9: Roger Bonair-Agard

   Julie Swarstad Johnson, Poetry Center Library Specialist   vocalisms is a regular feature that presents selected tracks from  voca , the Poetry Center's online audio video library of more than 800 recorded readings, ... plan used for university and community field trips to the Poetry Center. The lesson (which you can find in the Poetry Center’s lesson ...

   sgzemski - 04/22/2020 - 4:12pm

6. Announcing Spring 2019 Classes & Workshops and Scholarship Opportunities

   The Poetry Center is pleased to announce the Spring 2019 season of classes and workshops , an exciting mix of generative poetry studios, lively workshops, and rigorous writing seminars in both poetry and prose.  Registration opens for all of our classes on December ...

   sgzemski - 02/19/2019 - 10:50am

7. City of Tucson Names Logan Phillips as 2026-2029 Tucson Poet Laureate

   ... Tucson and Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, has appointed  Logan Phillips  as the 2026-2029 Tucson Poet ... of  Spoken Futures, Inc.  and the  Tucson Youth Poetry Slam  (2010-2019), he brings a borderlands perspective shaped by his ...

   mgoodrich - 03/02/2026 - 8:05am

8. An Interview with Education Program Coordinator Gema Ornelas

   ... OUR NEW EDUCATION PROGRAMS COORDINATOR GEMA ORNELAS TO THE POETRY CENTER! We asked Gema a few questions about poetry and her new role here, so we wanted to share them with you as we gear up ...

   sgzemski - 09/12/2018 - 11:23am

9. Announcing a new partnership with The Sealey Challenge!

   ... Tucson, Arizona. July 1, 2023. The University of Arizona Poetry Center, part of the College of Humanities, is excited to announce a new ... Sealey Challenge is a community effort to read one book of poetry each day for the month of August.  Beginning in August 2023, the Poetry ...

   tmeier - 08/15/2023 - 10:43am

10. 25 Sealey Challenge Reads - Recommendations from the Community

    ... past 9 years of the Sealey Challenge, the number of books of poetry we've read in community must be in the hundreds-of-thousands, and today ... yet by Rhoni Blankenhorn  A touching collection of poetry on the loss of the author’s parents and friend with some photography ...

    mgoodrich - 09/03/2025 - 2:05pm

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