Thinking Its Presence, UA Poetry Center
At the 2017 Thinking Its Presence Conference, several members of the Thinking Its Presence Board—Vidhu Aggarwal, Ching-In Chen, Lisa Jarrett, and Lehua Taitano—read from or discuss their creative work. Board member Farid Matuk reads work from a selection of Tucson-based writers: Samuel Ace, Susan Briante, Wendy Burk, Hannah Ensor, Teré Fowler-Chapman, Sarah Gonzales, Logan Phillips, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Brandon Shimoda, TC Tolbert, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Ofelia Zepeda.
Aggarwal, Vidhu. "Baggage Claims." Baggage Claims (exhibition catalog). Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 2017.
Chen, Ching-In. Recombinant. Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
Chen, Ching-In. Recombinant. Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
by Lisa Jarrett
by Farid Matuk
Read by Farid Matuk.
Ensor, Hannah. "Vulvas in the Academy." PEN Poetry Series. PEN America, 9 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Sabatini Sloan, Aisha. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit. 1913 Press, 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Briante, Susan. The Market Wonders. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2016.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Tolbert, TC. "Dear Melissa—." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 6 May 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Wilkinson, Joshua Marie. "The Easement." OmniVerse. Omniverse, n.d., web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Shimoda, Brandon. "State of Erasure: Arizona’s Place, and the Place of Arizona, in the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans." The Margins. Asian American Writers' Workshop, 20 Jan. 2017. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Gonzales, Sarah. "My Father and I." The Feminist Wire. The Feminist Wire, 2 Jul. 2014. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Burk, Wendy. "Biosphere 2: James D’Elia’s Duet." Poetic Field Reserach at Biosphere 2. Terrain.org, 5 Sep. 2014. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Phillips, Logan. "The Legislation." Dirtyverbs. Logan Phillips, 1 June 2014, web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Ace, Samuel. "An ocean-like hush." Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art (12). Posit, Dec. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Zepeda, Ofelia. Jewed 'I-Hoi/Earth Movements. Tucson: Kore Press, 1997.
Read by Farid Matuk.
Fowler-Chapman, Teré. "The First." Fuck Art, Let's Dance. Nostrovia! Press, Dec. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
by Lehua Taitano
Taitano, Lehua. "A Love Letter to the Chamoru People in the Twenty-first Century." A poem for Chamorus. Lehua M. Taitano, web. 21 Dec. 2017.