Fresh Desert Drafts

A selection of tracks that feature poets reading new work inspired by Tucson, the Poetry Center guest cottage, or the desert at large. Thank you to former Library Director Wendy Burk for compiling a list of poems written by visiting poets about or while in Tucson, which deeply aided in the process of creating this playlist.

Tracks
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"Desert Footage: Three Dissolves"
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Description
Differs slightly from published version.
Citation
Young, Al. The Sound of Dreams Remembered: Poems 1990-2000. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 2001.
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"In Bed, Looking at Myself"
Description

An unpublished poem written while staying at the Poetry Cottage.

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"Two Messages from the Fieries and the Snuffies"
Description

written in Tucson, about the Poetry Center

Citation

unpublished, uncollected

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"The Second Message from the Snuffies"
Description

written in Tucson, about the Poetry Center

Citation

unpublished, uncollected

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Opening Remarks and "Sunlight Off the Vltava"
Description

Unpublished.

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"Fascination"
Citation

Donnelly, Timothy. The Problem of the Many. Seattle: Wave Books, 2019.

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"High Noon, High Heat, Salome, Arizona"
Description

prose journal, 10/9/1967

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"A Possible Willow"
Description

From a work in progress. Unpublished.

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"Not in the body..."
Description

Unpublished.

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Opening Remarks and "Marlow Park"
Description

Differs from published version.

Citation

Vértiz, Vickie. "Marlow Park." Entropy. Entropy, 2 Aug. 2016. Web. 12 Sep. 2016.

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"To a Desert Poet"
Description

This poem was written for the dedication of the Poetry Center building in 2007.

Citation

Hillman, Brenda. Practical Water. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2009. 

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Al Young
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Alison Hawthorne Deming
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Kathleen Fraser
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Lois Shelton
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William Stafford
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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Cody Walker
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Christine Krikliwy
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Timothy Donnelly
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Paola Valenzuela
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Angel Dominguez
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Paola Valenzuela
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reading Publicity Poster
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The University of Arizona Poetry Center
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Nancy Carrick Holbert
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Anne Shaw and Reilly
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Allie Leach
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Vickie Vértiz
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Hannah Ensor
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Brenda Hillman
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Cybele Knowles
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