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1. Community Event: Open Mic

   Poetry Center Docents host their monthly Open Mic Event and all are welcome. ... takes place in the Hillman Odeum on the south side of the Poetry Center on the first Saturday of every month. If you have any questions, please contact poetry@email.arizona.edu Saturday, May 5, 2018 - 11:30am ...

   sgzemski - 08/10/2017 - 10:19am

2. Charles Simic

   ... Since 1967, he has published numerous books of his own poetry, eight books of essays, a memoir, and many of books of translations of French, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovenian poetry for which he has received literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, ...

   sgzemski - 08/10/2018 - 1:22pm

3. Remembering Seamus Heaney

   ... out that Heaney had passed, I looked up his reading on the Poetry Center's Voca archives. Heaney came to the Poetry Center on March 30, 1976, just two years after my parents graduated from ...

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

4. Erika L. Sánchez & sam sax at Burton Barr Central Library in Phoenix

   ... Q&A and a book signing. Erika L. Sánchez’s debut poetry collection, Lessons on Expulsion , was published by Graywolf in July ... author of Madness (Penguin, 2017) winner of The National Poetry Series selected by Terrance Hayes & ‘Bury It’ (Wesleyan ...

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

5. Co-Teaching the Zine: A Collaborative, Non-Hierarchical Way of Facilitating Creative Residencies

   ... off as totally unqualified to this poor student. The Poetry Center asked me to pilot this program because at a professional ... though, is a video that Taylor and I made at the Poetry Center recently. We walk through the steps, demonstrating how to make a ...

   dgoblirsch - 07/21/2023 - 10:13am

6. When Education Means Walking Out (In a Flourishing Way)

   ... halls. I’m packing up books after another session teaching poetry when a student approaches me. “Hey, I just wanted to let you ... first-hand: some of my earliest Tucson-area afterschool poetry workshops had been held in this very classroom beginning in 2011 ...

   emsierra - 05/05/2026 - 11:05am

7. Writing with Air: Finding Form in a Polluted World with Gretchen Henderson

   ... 8th, 2025, 9:30AM-1:30PM Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students. General registration ... workshop, we reimagine the presence of air in our words—poetry, nonfiction, fiction, between & beyond—breathing life into lines and ...

   valenzuela9 - 01/23/2025 - 5:46pm

8. Workshop for Families & Students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder, with Chris Martin

   ... parents/guardians.  Recent studies have shown that poetry is often the most direct linguistic expression for many on the autism ... Interest co-founder Chris Martin will show why and how poetry can be the ideal vehicle for transforming the lives of people with ...

   dgoblirsch - 06/21/2018 - 2:41pm

9. When We Dead Awaken: Reading Adrienne Rich

   ... 6-8pm, from July 10 to July 19, in the Poetry Center Conference Room 207. This short course is designed for poets ... in their own writing. Of what value is Adrienne Rich’s poetry today for the working artist? Let us survey Rich’s greatest hits, ...

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

10. Prize Winners Spotlight: Nikky Finney

    ... to focus on Nikky Finney, a poet who gave a reading at the Poetry Center on Thursday, February 7, 2019 as part of the Art for Justice ... In 2011 Nikky Finney won the National Book Award for her poetry collection Head Off & Split (Northwestern University Press).  I ...

    sgzemski - 10/28/2020 - 9:44am

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