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 Announcing Our Fall Events
Art and Ecology – Eleni Sikelianos – Juliana Spahr – Lila Zemborain – Workshop with Lydia Millet – The Ghost Net Project
This fall the Poetry Center presents a reading and lecture series entitled “Oh Earth, Wait for Me”: Conversations about Art and Ecology. Poets, musicians, and visual artists will share their work and discuss their contributions to a deepening
understanding of our contemporary relationships with environment, organisms, and energy. Many of our other programs this season reflect the theme of the series; we’ll host library and art exhibits that engage with ecological issues, a discussion
about the nature poet Robinson Jeffers, an ecopoetics class, and more. And don’t forget to stop by the Children’s Corner to check out fresh new books for kids, as well as Poetry Joeys in a new format for a wider range
of ages. This is a particularly exciting and dynamic semester at the Poetry Center. Don’t miss it!
Readings & Lectures | Classes & Workshops | Discussions
Art Exhibits | Library Exhibits
Poetry Joeys
Fall Calendar of Events
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 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine and The Ghost Net Project
New exhibitions at the Poetry Center
The three R's are for more than grocery bags. Add a fourth R, Reimagine, and they stand for an exciting movement embracing sustainability in book arts. Endpapers made from a poet's t-shirts, aluminum foil and waxed paper finding new life as broadsides, and chapbooks sharing space through dos-a-dos binding are some of the innovative approaches on display from the Poetry Center's Rare Book Room.
The Ghost Net Project, a collaboration between artist Heather Green and poet Katherine Larson, uses the physical remains from fishing as a lens to examine historical, cultural and ecological relationships to the Sea of Cortez. The project consists of 25 shadow boxes constructed with salvaged shrimp boat wood and filled with a display of flotsam and jetsam collected on the rocky shores of La Cholla. Each box is paired with a poem, an excerpt of which is etched onto its glass façade.
Library Exhibits | Art Exhibits
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 Solar Poetry Contest Reading
Hear the winners read at the AzRISE Solar Fusion celebration
Last spring the University of Arizona Poetry Center partnered with AzRISE to present a Solar Poetry Contest in celebration of the University’s participation in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The Poetry Center invited UA students and staff to submit an original sonnet about the sun in one of three categories: Shakespearean, Petrarchan, or non-traditional. Alison Hawthorne Deming served as contest judge.
Hear contest winners Melissa Lamberton, Sarah Kortemeier, and Maureen McHugh read their poems at the AzRISE Solar Fusion celebration on Friday, August 28 at Crowder Hall. The celebration takes place from 9:00 a.m. to noon; the poetry reading is at 10:20 a.m. Also, look for the sonnets printed in full in the September e-Newsletter!
Visit AzRISE for more information
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 Next Shop Talk: With Joel Arthur
The work of Robinson Jeffers
Joel Arthur, UA alumnus and Academic Skills Coordinator at the University of Arizona SALT Center, leads a discussion of Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962), a forerunner of contemporary ecopoetry whose intense, sweeping work is emblematic of the Carmel/Big Sur region of California.
Discussions
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Changes in the Library
From Print to Online