HUMANITIES SEMINARS SUMMER COURSES
June 5, 12, 19, and 26
9 a.m. – noon at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
Mini-Seminar “American Pulp Fiction 1945-65” taught by Richard Poss, Associate Professor of Astronomy, Cost: $65
July 8, 15, 22, and 29
9 a.m. – noon at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
Mini-Seminar, “The Amazing Architecture of Ancient Rome” taught by David Soren, Professor of Classics and Director of the Humanities Seminars Program
Cost: $65
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For more information about Poetry Center activities call (520)626-3765 or email poetry@u.arizona.edu.
For more information about the Humanities Seminars, contact Kerstin Miller at (520) 626-7845 or humansem@email.arizona.edu.
Parking for Poetry Center events is free on weekends and after 5 p.m. in Zone 1 lots around the Helen S. Schaefer Building. Paid parking is always available in the Highland Avenue Garage. Call 626-PARK for more information.
Poetry Center programs are funded in part but the National Endowment for the Arts, Arizona Humanities Council, University of Arizona Foundation, Poets & Writers, and The Friends of the Poetry Center. Poetry Joeys are supported in part by Colleen and Jim Burns.
ACTIVITIES & EVENTS THROUGH MAY, 2008
March 31 – May 5
6:15 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Alumni Reading Room
Book Binding for Writers: A Workshop with Drew Burk, $150 plus $40 materials fee
April 4
Early Registration Deadline (regular registration continues after 4/4/08)
CONCEPTUAL POETRY AND ITS OTHERS WITH KEYNOTE SPEAKER MARJORIE PERLOFF (to be held on May 29-31)
April 10
7 p.m. at the Modern Languages Auditorium
ArtsReach Native American Student Writing: Reading with Native American Youth sponsored by The Tucson Pima Arts Council
April 10
7:30 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Hillman Odeum
26th Annual Tucson Poetry Festival Reading: performance by Ayisha Knight
April 12
9 a.m. at the Poetry Center
Reading & Discussion of the Work of WS Merwin: led by Barrie Ryan
April 12 and 13
(Registration deadline April 4th)
9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Alumni Reading Room
A Year In Two Days: A Writing Workshop with Dana Elkun, $100 plus $5 materials fee
April 17
8 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
W.S. Merwin talk: “On The Green World”
co-sponsored by Center for Biological Diversity
April 19
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. at the Poetry Center (Hillman Odeum)
UA Student Contest Awards Presentation
April 26
10 a.m. at the Poetry Center, The Children’s Corner
Poetry Joeys
A reading and activity group for children ages 4-8 with Juanita Havill, author of I Heard It from Alice Zucchini, about a magical vegetable garden
April 26
12:15 p.m. at the Jacome Plaza (outside Main Library at 101 N. Stone Ave.)
Corrido Awards Presentation at the Chalk Arts Festival with Ernesto Portillo and Jacobo Ramirez and Bwiya-Toli as well as the Stanza Bonanza Booth
May 1
8 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
Readings by contributors to Persona, the undergraduate literary magazine of the University of Arizona
May 3
11 a.m. at the Poetry Center, Creative Writing Alumni Room
Discussion of the work of poet John Berryman led by Joel Arthur, 2nd Year MFA Candidate in the Creative Writing Program
May 7 & May 8
8 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
Two Nights of Graduate Readings by MFA Candidates in the Creative Writing Program
May 15
8 p.m. at the Poetry Center, Dorothy Rubel Room
Readings by prose writers Joy Williams and Lydia Millet
May 29-31
Schedule Forthcoming, at the Poetry center
A Symposium “Conceptual Poetry and Its Others” with Keynote Speaker Marjorie Perloff and breakout sessions with featured artists Caroline Bergvall, Charles Bernstein, Craig Dworkin, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Susan Howe, Tracie Morris and Cole Swensen
(Beginning May 1st individual tickets will be available for keynote address and readings)
