Stop by to see our newest exhibit at the Poetry Center: Indigenous Poets from the Rare Book Room!
Featuring stunning work from N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Diné poet and politician Rex Lee Jim.
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Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis curates poems that illuminate characteristics of refugee poetics. He explores poems touching on the displacement of the self, the contradictions inherent in being a refugee in the nation that caused the wound, and the desire for belonging that can never be fulfilled.
Spend an evening with poetry! This Thursday, we welcome Eleanor Wilner & Alicia Ostriker.
January 29 @ 7:00pm
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Submit your poems to the Haiku Hike!
Theme: Connection
Deadline: Feb 2
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To celebrate our final school year of the Zine and Zine Libraries theme for our Brave Books Program, we are asking for zine submissions from K-12 students. We accept zines by students of all grades, about any topic!
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Hurry! Only a few spots remain in this upcoming class!
Explore poetry and superbly dark night skies at 7,000 feet in this unique writing workshop focused on poetry and astronomy.
Date: Nov 15, from 3:30 - 8:30 pm
Cost: $150
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Celebrating the poet Andrea Gibson, you won't want to miss "Come See Me in the Good Light."
Playing for ONE NIGHT ONLY at The Loft Cinema
Wed Nov 19, 7:30pm
Join us for a free concert, "Silently Louder," this Saturday!
What: New music by nonspeaking autistic songwriters, performed by folksinger Brian Laidlaw
When: Saturday, November 15, 2025 - 1:00pm
Where: Poetry Center
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Hannelore Quander-Rattee Works-in-Translation Reading, featuring Karen Emmerich.
Join us Thursday November 6, 2025 - 7:00pm!
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Hurry! Only a few spots remain in this upcoming class!
Explore poetry and superbly dark night skies at 7,000 feet in this unique writing workshop focused on poetry and astronomy.
Date: Nov 15, from 3:30 - 8:30 pm
Cost: $150
poetry.arizona.edu/calendar/poe...
Postcard. Featuring a running rabbit inside a circle festooned with roses. Captioned: poetry is an endurance technology. Quote from Dana 11.
Belief system
(Thanks for these @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social )
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The City of Tucson, in partnership with the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona and the University of Arizona Poetry Center, is pleased to announce the open call for the next Tucson Poet Laureate.
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Join us for a Dream History Tour!
Saturday, October 25 - 11:00am
Mathias Svalina, poet & writer/deliverer of The Dream Delivery Service, will lead walking tours of Tucson, identifying sites of imaginary, unreal, & bewildered historical events.
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Join us for a Poetry Reading with Tracy K. Smith, former poet laureate, as part of the Tucson Humanities Festival!
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 7:00pm
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You're also invited to livestream from anywhere: poetry.arizona.edu/readings/live
Claire Hong’s piece “Landlines" takes us on a visual journey through color, family, and the natural and cosmic world that bridges the past, present, and future.
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Check out the latest Poetry Centered episode!
Dawn Lundy Martin selects poems of urgency, tension, and devotion, then closes with an excerpt from “A Fable of the Regime,” which engages with the present, long moment of American history.
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You never have to miss a poetry reading! Anyone, anywhere can attend Poetry Center readings live from your phone, iPad, or computer!
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Our next reading will feature Josh Riedel and Thomas Dai
Thursday, September 25, 2025 - 7:00pm
the work of poetry is about opening a space—or creating the conditions—for listening, a space for people to be listened to
—Jennifer Elise Foerster (Mvskoke)
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Congratulations to Richard Siken for making the longlist for the National Book Awards! We're looking forward to his reading this October with Mathias Svalina.
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Join us TONIGHT for a poetry reading with Jennifer Chang!
Sept 4 at 7:00 pm at the Poetry Center — Come in-person or watch via livestream 😊
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Announcing our Fall 2025 Reading & Lecture Series!
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Gorgeous poetry postcards!
Welcome to DAY 1 of the 2025 #SealeyChallenge! 31 books of poetry in 31 days: let's goooooooo!
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Tomorrow we invite you on a #sealeychallenge journey to read 31 books of poetry in 31 days. Please stop by the Poetry Center to read as much as you like, as long as you like!
Since the 2023 #SealeyChallenge, @nicolesealey.bsky.social has entrusted the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center with caring for this incredible month of reading poetry. Let's enter this poetic pilgrimage together as we pursue the radical joy of reading 31 books of poetry in 31 days.
Since the 2023 #SealeyChallenge, @Nic_Sealey has entrusted the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center with caring for this incredible month of reading poetry. Let's enter this poetic pilgrimage together as we pursue the radical joy of reading 31 books of poetry in 31 days.
The #SealeyChallenge is only a few short days away! Excited to celebrate a month of reading poetry in community.
“The Sealey Challenge, at heart, is a big, raucous, joyful celebration of poetry.” —Laura Sackton
Whether you're brand-new to the challenge or old hat, everyone is invited to read (more) 31 books in 31 days this August!
www.thesealeychallenge.com
Ada Limón reading poetry in December 2024
Working at @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social is an incredible gift—because I get to go to readings like this "for work," where Ada Limón casts spells and makes us laugh and launches us directly into space:
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Tired by Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two — And see what worms are eating At the rind.
Aren't you
