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Ríos, Alberto. Not Go Away Is My Name. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 2020.
Vang, Mai Der. Yellow Rain. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2021.
Dominguez, Angel. RoseSunWater. Brooklyn: The Operating System, 2021.
Franco, Gina. The Accidental. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
Maldonado, Sheila. "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 14 July 2021. Web. Accessed 14 March 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Appeared in the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, on display at The Poetry Center and The Center for Creative Photography from April 4-August 31, 2024.
Toledo, Natalia. "The Zapotec." Translated by Clare Sullivan. Modern Poetry in Translation, no. 2, 2021. Citation available for English version only.
Palacios, Gabriel. A Ten Peso Burial For Which Truth I Sign. Portland, OR: Fonograf Editions, 2024.
CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.
CAConrad. Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return. Seattle: Wave Books, 2024.
Robert Pinsky reads from his collection The Figured Wheel (1996).
Luci Tapahonso reads for the 2011 Poetics and Politics Series. She reads work from several of her books, as well as unpublished poems.
Martín Espada reads from Trumpets from the Islands of their Eviction (1987), Rebellion is the Circle of a Lover's Hands (1990), and City of Coughing and Dead Radiators (1993).
O'odham poets Ofelia Zepeda, Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder, and Amber Lee Ortega read poems in English and O'odham from the exhibition The Place Where Clouds Are Formed (April 4-August 31, 2024). Their poems and commentary focus on O'odham identity, experiences including displacement and violence, the importance of honoring the desert, and the resilience of individuals and communities. Traditional religion and Catholicism are discussed throughout.
Gabriel Palacios reads from his first book, A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign (2024). The poems touch on themes of family history and identity, and Tucson appears throughout. This reading was originally given alongside Gabriel Dozal, Maddie Norris, and Margo Steines, all fellow alumni of the University of Arizona creative writing MFA program.
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