Poetry Center Publication Receives Special Honor
Each year, the Pima County Public Library, in partnership with the Friends of the Pima County Public Library and the Arizona Historical Society, selects, from hundreds of submissions of titles published during the year, a finite number of publications to honor in Southwest Books of the Year.
This year, Bill Broyles selected, as one of his ten picks, The University of Arizona Poetry Center: Celebrating 50 Years, edited by the Poetry Center’s Executive Director Gail Browne and recently retired Senior Librarian, Rodney Phillips. “One highlight of living in Tucson is the University of Arizona Poetry Center, founded by Ruth Walgreen Stephan,” Broyes writes. “The essays in this keepsake volume are exceptional, as LaVerne Harrell Clark, Richard Shelton for his wife, Lois, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Gail Browne and Frances Sjoberg retell the story as the loving community that brought poetry to the desert and now sustains it.”
A limited number of copies of The University of Arizona Poetry Center: Celebrating 50 Years are available at the Poetry Center free of charge.
See Bill Broyles’ Southwest Books of the Year picks at http://www.library.pima.gov/books/swboy/2011/broyles.php
