The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Kenyon Review Managing Editor Tyler Meier Named New Executive Director

 

Click ‘Contribute’ to give to the Poetry Center today! View thisl in your browser Kenyon Review Managing Editor Tyler Meier Named New Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center  College of Humanities Dean Mary Wildner-Bassett has just named Tyler Meier as the new Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Meier brings years of experience as a poet, administrator and teacher to his new position at the Poetry Center, which he assumes on August 5. Meier comes to the Poetry Center from The Kenyon Review in Ohio where he was the managing editor as well as the co-director of the Young Writers Summer Program. He received an MFA from the University of Washington, and his poetry and nonfiction have appeared in At Length, AGNI (online), Laurel Review, Bat City Review, jubilat, Washington Square, Thermos, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. “Now that the Poetry Center has settled into its landmark building, we are ready to embark on the next era of the Center, to expand our vibrant programs and build new audiences for poetry here and across the country. I know Tyler will bring energy and enthusiasm to the position,” said College of Humanities Dean Mary Wildner-Bassett.   “I’m thrilled to join the Poetry Center staff as Executive Director,” said Meier. “From the volunteers and donors and docents to the writers who visit in the Reading Series, from the incredibly dedicated staff to the larger community served by the collections and programs and events, I’ve been truly astounded by all of the people who participate in the daily life of the Center.  The place positively hums.  This must be what Ruth Stephan had in mind over fifty years ago when she had the original, beautiful idea for a Poetry Center.  It is an aspirational space that recognizes and celebrates a central role for poetry in our contemporary culture, and it amplifies our hopes for what the art form might do in the years to come.”    Meier will replace Gail Browne who has served as the Executive Director of the Poetry Center since 2002. Browne is pursuing other arts administration opportunities in the greater Phoenix area. Facebook Twitter Website Copyright © 2013 The University of Arizona Poetry Center, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: The University of Arizona Poetry Center 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson, AZ 85721 Add us to your address book

The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Classes & Workshops Reading & New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell & Social Justice Poets

The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Classes & Workshops Reading & New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell & Social Justice Poets

This Week at the Poetry Center Poetry Center Classes & Workshops Reading Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. The Poetry Center’s Classes & Workshops program is a year-round hive of learning, reading, writing, and creative accomplishments and breakthroughs. Our students work in many genres and media. Join us for an evening of readings by students and teachers who participated during the spring semester. Details | Events Calendar New on voca: Nathanial Mackey & Marilyn Crispell Newly available on voca, the Poetry Center’s online audio/video library: poet Nathaniel Mackey performs with jazz pianist Marilyn Crispell at the Pima Community College Center for the Arts on March 28, 2013. This performance was presented in collaboration with Chax Press and POG: Poetry In Action. Follow voca on Twitter @UAvoca and add some poetry to your day! Social Justice Poets Expect to be transported and challenged by this exhibit featuring poet activists Allen Ginsberg, Demetria Martínez, and many others. Curated by Erin Renee Wahl and the Progressive Librarians Guild of the University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science, “Social Justice Poets” gathers poems, photographs, and original documents representing the deep relationship between poets, their poetry, and their causes. We invite you to be infused by the spirit of social justice poets. The exhibit is on view in the Poetry Center library through June 26. (Photo by Jessica Kelly Jenkins)

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The University of Arizona Poetry Center- Creative Writing MFA Graduate Readings & Hattie Lockett and UA Student Contest Broadside Exhibition

 

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There’s always something happening at the Poetry Center! Is this not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. This Week at the Poetry Center Creative Writing MFA Graduate Readings Wednesday, May 1 and Thursday, May 2 7:00 p.m. Students graduating from the University of Arizona Creative Writing MFA program will read from their work. The Poetry Center will also recognize the winners of our UA student poetry contests and distribute broadsides of the prize-winning poems. The readings take place over two evenings (May 1 and 2). Details | Events Calendar Hattie Lockett and UA Student Contest Broadside Exhibition May 1 through June 1, 2013 Poetry Center Library Come view a broadside exhibition of 2012-2013 contest-winning work by University of Arizona students, presented in collaboration with the UA Book Art Collective. Summer Classes & Workshops Feeling surreal? Interested in letterpress printing? Want to get in touch with your inner gods and demons? This summer, the Poetry Center is offering three courses: Surrealist Writing with Matt Rotando (May 20-26),Poetry in Letterpress Print with Alice Vinson (June 22-23) and Writing Your Gods and Demons with Christopher Nelson (July 8-18). Online registration is now open and these courses are expected to fill quickly. Reserve your spot now!   Gail Browne Receives Humanities Council Award Last evening, the Arizona Humanities Council honored UA Poetry Center Executive Director Gail Browne with the Juliana Yoder Friend of the Humanities Award. This award serves as a tribute to Browne, who will be leaving her position in June 2013 and relocating to Phoenix. The Yoder Award commemorates her life’s work of making poetry and the humanities accessible in all corners of Arizona and beyond.  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend Copyright © 2013 The University of Arizona Poetry Center All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: The University of Arizona Poetry Center 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson, AZ 85721 Add us to your address book

University of Arizona Poetry Center- UA Prose Series Reading: Brent Hendricks and Nicole Walker & Shop Talk: The Poetry of J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada

This Week at the Poetry Center UA Prose Series Reading: Brent Hendricks and Nicole Walker TONIGHT! Monday, April 22 at 7:00 p.m. Sponsored by the UA Department of English Brent Hendricks’ newly released memoir, A Long Day at the End of the World, recounts the chilling discovery of his father’s body among hundreds of abandoned and decayed corpses at the Tri-State Crematory in Georgia in February 2002. Nicole Walker’s new nonfiction book, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, is “part affecting memoir, part lyric meditation on water, part cultural critique, but finally about all that is unquenchable in the human experience” (Robin Hemley). Details | Events Calendar Shop Talk: The Poetry of J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada Tuesday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. Join us for a triple feature at this Shop Talk led by poet, dancer, and University of Arizona MFA graduate Christina Vega-Westhoff. She will lead us in a discussion of the work of J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada, three exciting contemporary poets who will read for the Poetry Center on April 25. Details | Events Calendar Latino/a Poetry Now: J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada Thursday, April 25 at 7:00 p.m. Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas/Poetry Society of America This reading, showcasing a new generation of Latino/a poets, is part of “Latino/a Poetry Now,” a two-year national tour sponsored by Letras Latinas and the Poetry Society of America. Francisco Aragón, director of Letras Latinas, will open the event, and poets J. Michael Martínez, Carmen Giménez Smith, and Roberto Tejada will read from their work. The reading will be followed by a question and answer session and book signing. Details | Events Calendar Family Days Saturday, April 27 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. This month’s Family Day features a rocking dance party by special guest dancers from BreakOut Studios! Other poem-happenings include Poetry Joeys creative writing workshops, yoga, multilingual story time, a book club based around The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and more! Details | Events Calendar New on voca: Peggy Shumaker & Eloise Klein Healy New on voca, the Poetry Center’s online audio/video library:Peggy Shumaker reads from Toucan Nest: Poems of Costa Rica (2013) and Eloise Klein Healy reads from A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings (2013). Both poets read their work at the Poetry Center on March 21, 2013.(Photo by Cybele Knowles) Follow voca on Twitter @UAvoca and add a little poetry to your day!

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University of Arizona Poetry Center- Call for Teachers: Poetry Out Loud Professional Development Workshop & Readings & Other Workshops

University of Arizona Poetry Center- Call for Teachers: Poetry Out Loud Professional Development Workshop & Readings & Other Workshops

Meet Our Summer Residents!
The Poetry Center awards two residencies each summer to one poet and one prose writer to spend two to four weeks in Tucson developing his or her work. Our residents this summer are poet Genine Lentine and prose writer Harrison Candelaria Fletcher. Read what our judges have to say about Genine and Harrison.

Arizona State Museum Blogs about Poetry Center Docents
April 28 was Slow Art Day, an international program that encourages people to come to museums and view specific pieces of art slowly, and then discuss the artwork with others. This year, Poetry Center docents collaborated with the Arizona State Museum on a special Slow Art Day activity. Read about their contribution in this blog post.

Call for Teachers: Poetry Out Loud Professional Development Workshop

July 11 and 12, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

(with a special performance by participants from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on June 12)

This workshop for teachers, based on the National Poetry Out Loud Contest, is designed to increase confidence with poetry performance and the instruction of poetry performance. Participants will receive free resources (including a DVD of their own poetry performance), a certificate for 10 hours of continuing education credit, and time to develop their own lesson plans and poetry performance. Teachers who register and participate in the National Out Loud Contest in the upcoming school year are eligible for a $100 stipend on a first-come, first-served basis. Go here for complete details.

Coming Up at the Poetry Center
A Poet in the Library

Our Summer Resident Poet Genine Lentine is available for one-on-one meetings with community members on the next three Monday evenings. She’s also offering a FREE writing workshop on Saturday, June 30, entitled And Then a Plank in Reason Broke: Poetry, Uncertainty, and the Creative Process.

Methods of Revision: A Poetry Course with Christopher Nelson
June 18, 21, 25, and 28, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
We still have a few spots left in this excellent course on different approaches to revising your poems. Go here to register!

Poetry Reading: Genine Lentine and Christopher Nelson
Wednesday, June 27 at 7:00 p.m
Join us for a reading by Summer Resident Poet Genine Lentine and local Tucson poet Christopher Nelson.

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University of Arizona Poetry Center- Creative Writing Camp for Grade 3-5 (Ages 9-12) & Poetry Reading: Genine Lentine and Christopher Nelson

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Creative Writing Camp for Grade 3-5 (Ages 9-12)

June 11-15, 2012 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Tuition: $310

The Poetry Center’s Creative Writing Camp offers kids in grades 3-5 a week of poetry, storytelling, letter writing, creative movement, bookmaking, and performance. Campers will generate, create, and compile writing for their own handmade books. At the end of the week, they will display their creations in a gallery-type setting at the Poetry Center and read selections of their work for friends and family. Register for this dynamic summer camp online through UA’s Outreach College. http://outreachcollege.arizona.edu/youth/creative-writing-camp

Poetry Reading: Genine Lentine and Christopher Nelson
Wednesday, June 27, 2012 at 7 p.m. (PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE)
The Poetry Center awards two residencies each summer to one poet and one prose writer to spend two to four weeks in Tucson developing his or her work. Join us for a reading by our Summer Resident Poet Genine Lentine and local Tucson Poet Christopher Nelson.

University of Arizona Poetry Center | 1508 East Helen Street | Tucson | AZ | 85721-0150
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University of Arizona Poetry Center- Poetry Off the Page Highlights & Writing True Fiction: The Continuing Influence of Myths and Archetypes Elizabeth Frankie Rollins

University of Arizona Poetry Center- Poetry Off the Page Highlights & Writing True Fiction: The Continuing Influence of Myths and Archetypes Elizabeth Frankie Rollins

The Poetry Center’s third international symposium, Poetry Off the Page, carved out three vital days in time in which spectacle, inquiry, creative play, collaboration, improvisation, and movement pushed poetry further into new literary territory. Many of these performances and panels will be available soon on voca, the Poetry Center’s audio video library. Watch a slideshow capturing some of Poetry Off the Page’s most dynamic moments here.

Meet our Summer Residents!
Congratulations to our 2012 residents: Genine Lentine (Poetry) and Harrison C. Fletcher (Prose). Genine and Harrison will each be staying at the Poetry Center for a two to four week stint, writing, researching, discovering Tucson, and presenting their work by reading at the Poetry Center. Find more information about this year’s residents including short bios and excerpts of their work here.

Coming Up at the Poetry Center
Writing True Fiction: The Continuing Influence of Myths and Archetypes with Elizabeth Frankie Rollins
Meets: Mondays, June 4 through July 9 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Tuition: $170 + $7 course material fee

This workshop will study the frameworks of myth and archetype in both modern and ancient texts. In writing experiments, we will look at archetypes as familiar forms that must be filled in with conscious life, first models which other things are patterned after: father, mother, oracle, trickster, hero, temptress, villain, maiden. In other experiments, we’ll try rewriting certain traditional myths with our own skies, people, beliefs, and behaviors. Students should expect to generate at least three new story beginnings, and/or students may want to use class exercises and discussions to further develop works-in-progress.

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