experimental

Sheila E. Murphy reads widely from her body of work.

Anne Waldman discusses and reads from two recent projects, Manatee/Humanity and the Chax Press chapbook Matriot Acts. This reading was given alongside Laynie Browne for the 2010 Tucson Festival of Books.

C. D. Wright reads from One With Others (2010).

Jen Hofer reads widely from her early work. This reading was originally given with Summi Kaipa.

Leslie Scalapino reads selections from her work, collected in The Front Matter, Dead Souls (1996), New Time (1999), and Zither & Autobiography (2003).

Hilito is a short film that captures a performance by Cecilia Vicuña in the Sonoran Desert. It was filmed over the span of a week across various locations in Tucson. Vicuña created this film for the Poetry Off the Page Symposium.

Curated for Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and spanning the years 1990-2023, this selection of work seeks to capture the aesthetic and thematic range of Asian American and Pacific Islander poets. 

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.