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1. Meet the Teaching Artists: Logan Phillips!

   ... County, AZ and based full time in Tucson since 2011. Poetry was my initial entryway into the arts, and I still consider myself a ... desert and dancing. I believe a better world is possible and poetry is one tool to manifest it. When did you first come to know the ...

   emsierra - 11/11/2025 - 10:05am

2. An Interview with Rebecca Foust

   ... Press Chapbook Award) and  Paradise Drive  (Press 53 Poetry Award), reviewed in the  Times Literary Supplement, Washington Review ... Reviews. Recognitions include the CP Cavafy and James Hearst poetry prizes, and fellowships from The Frost Place, Hedgebrook, MacDowell, and ...

   sgzemski - 03/11/2020 - 1:04pm

3. Happy Earth Day! 

   ... movement.  Below, we’ve shared some resources at the Poetry Center to help celebrate Earth Day this year!   You’ll find  seven ... leading poets who participated in our Climate Change and Poetry series; some sample lesson plans suitable for poets of all ages; a link ...

   sgzemski - 04/21/2020 - 6:27pm

4. Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

   The Poetry Center is proud to present  Vaunda Micheaux Nelson , who will read ... she co-authored with her husband, Drew Nelson.  Vaunda’s poetry has been published in Cricket and Cicada magazines.   Her latest ...

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

5. Sawako Nakayasu

   ... language, performance, and translation. Her newest books of poetry include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023), a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker ... multilingual work that combines both original and translated poetry. Settle Her, which was written on the #1 bus line in Providence on ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 06/08/2023 - 4:21pm

6. The Book Club Calls It Like It Is

   Mary M, Poetry Center Docent The Closer Look Book Club Calls It Like ... How has it come to be that the University of Arizona Poetry Center has a book club discussion every month about a work of literary fiction ?  As a fellow Poetry Center Docent recently observed to me, "I don’t volunteer at the ...

   sgzemski - 08/22/2017 - 10:04am

7. Imagine if We Could Fly: K-5 Anthology

   ... I want to see how they see things.” That is the essence of poetry: a moment in empathy. A moment beyond one’s own mind. When you read ... the paintings of artists from around the world, and wrote poetry about it all. We weren’t only writers. We were scientists learning ...

   dgoblirsch - 08/16/2021 - 10:42am

8. Notes from Tucson Poet Laureate Rebecca Seiferle

   By Rebecca Seiferle   Following poetry, that “barefoot rank” as Emily Dickinson describes it, can lead in ... decades since I decided at the age of fourteen to pursue poetry, I don’t think I ever imagined being a poet laureate. Being named ...

   coh-web - 03/23/2016 - 2:35pm

9. Bookmarked: Ching-In Chen

   ... Writing  and  Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics.  They serve as the  Texas Review’s poetry editor  and on Thinking Its Presence: Race, Advocacy, ...

   sgzemski - 04/10/2018 - 2:39pm

10. Smudging the Dark: An Interview with Catherine Pierce

    ... “animal.” Catherine Pierce is the author of the poetry collections Danger Days, The Tornado Is the World, The Girls of ... for Everybody. Her work has appeared in  The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The Nation, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere, ...

    mgoodrich - 07/24/2026 - 2:05pm

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