University of Arizona Poetry Center

Our summer closure is coming up! If you are planning to visit the Poetry Center in July, please note we will be closed July 3 - July 20.

Blend poetry and photography in this ekphrastic workshop let by collaborative artists! Poets and visual arts of all experience welcome.

In this workshop, you'll use the lenses of poetry, photography, essay, and visual art to explore the complex interrelationships between nature and humanity, our impact on a warming world.

https://universityofarizonapoetrycenter.submittable.com/submit

"Oh summer is such a generous thing.
Even the dark is charged with the thrill
of living."

Gorgeous broadside of Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poem "In Crepuscular Light"

Arizona is home to a plethora of acclaimed and much-beloved poets. This online exhibition features 20 Arizona poets who represent diverse viewpoints, styles and backgrounds, and all of whom have an important connection to Arizona.

https://poetry.arizona.edu/20poets

Reminder: The Poetry Center will be closed June 19 in honor of Juneteenth.

Sometimes you are a broken barn.
Sometimes you are the street & trees.
Sometimes a spool of purple string.

You are a colander, sometimes
losing things.

Sometimes what keeps you alive is a mystery.

—Aracelis Girmay, from “Portrait of the Woman as a Skein”

Did you know the Poetry Center is a Literary Landmark? We're so delighted to be included on this Literary Road Trip Across America, created by LitHub!

https://lithub.com/a-literary-road-trip-across-america/

Read your poems and summon the rains!
June 28 @ Hotel Congress

In partnership with Sky Island Alliance, join us for a Summer Social to celebrate and call in the 2026 Monsoon Season in Southern Arizona. Participants can share their own work, or a rain-themed poem that they love. Help us augur a good monsoon season with poetry!

Sign up to read: https://forms.gle/N1k3J6U2kgu47nEj7

Spots in the lineup will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

"Removing the binaries means resisting control. Just as humans have desperately tried to tame rivers—building dams, locks, spillways, and shipping channels, to name a few methods of control—society has attempted to control the q***r body. " —Stacey Baulkin

Placing Queerness in the Natural World: Minnie Bruce Pratt’s "Crime Against Nature" Poet Minnie Bruce Pratt was born and raised in the South, and as a young woman, she put aside her own writing to raise two sons before coming out as a le***an. The ensuing loss of her parental rights after coming out and divorcing her husband is the central narrative to her Lamont award-winning coll...

The Poetry Center's summer closure is coming up!

Our doors will be closed July 3 - July 20. We look forward to seeing you when we reopen!