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 Ringing in the fall reading series, "Oh Earth, Wait for Me": Conversations about Art and Ecology
Alison Hawthorne Deming gives us a sneak peak
The planet is changing faster than expected. Temperatures are rising, ice caps melting, arid zones growing, species declining, and people are suffering from displacement, hunger, and war. The 2009 report of the U.S. Global Climate Panel estimates that global warming is already causing 300,000 deaths per year and that hunger, mass migration, and war will increase as people displaced by these changes seek refuge. While the pressures are keen to understand, mitigate, and adapt to these challenges, the desire to understand our human place in Earth's story is not new.
How might some of the most enduring human stories and some of the newest forms of artistic expression help us to see ourselves anew as we take these challenges to heart and into our hands? That is the question the Poetry Center will address in the Fall Reading and Lecture Series. Our conversation begins with Alison Hawthorne Deming’s lecture, “Baba Yaga, Demeter, and the Drunken Mother: Myth, Metaphor, and Science at the End of the World,” on September 10. Here are two excerpts from that lecture.
Baba Yaga Excerpts
Readings & Lectures | Calendar of Events
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 Lydia Millet Class Clears New Territory
Focus on Voice will be the Poetry Center's First Fiction Class
Author Lydia Millet, the author of six novels, most recently How the Dead Dream (2008), talks with Annie Guthrie about craft issues in anticipation of her upcoming
intermediate fiction seminar and workshop “Focus on Voice,” beginning Monday, September 14.
Read the Q&A | Millet's Fiction Class |
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 The Book Stops Here.
Charles Alexander visits The Book Stop
Charles Alexander, poet and captain and commander of Chax Press, provides a spirited and personal account of his
experiences as a shopper at The Book Stop. Alexander writes: "The Book Stop plugs holes or corrects mistakes in my poetry library." Read more below.
*The photo to the left was taken by Mari Herreras for The Tucson Weekly.
Read Charles Alexander's Piece
Make a day out of your visit to The Book Stop:
there's plenty to do on Fourth Avenue!
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 Searchable Up-to-Date Database of Readers
Now Available!
Did you know that W.S. Merwin has read seven times between 1969 and 2008?
Did you know that the Poetry Center has hosted over 80 community readings (Persona, Red Ink, UA graduate and undergraduate, contest winners, Corrido, Poetry Out Loud)?
How about that over half of U.S. Poet Laureates have read for the Poetry Center, some multiple times? This impressive list includes Elizabeth Bishop, William Stafford, Stanley Kunitz, Mark Strand, Rita Dove, Robert Hass,
Robert Pinksy, Billy Collins, Louise Gluck, and Charles Simic. All of this information is now available on the Poetry Center’s website.
Check out the List of Readers!
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 The Taxonomy of Ecopoetics
Eric Magrane's upcoming class
Eric Magrane, a naturalist, birder, poet, and teacher who has been an Artist in Residence in three
national parks, is teaching a discussion-based class on the ecology of poetry. Eric's six-week Ecopoetics class, which starts October 5, will cover some extensive and fascinating ground.
Here, he provides an in-depth preview of the class as well as a reading list.
Eric's Ecopoetics Reading List | Ecopoetics class
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 Sonnets to the Sun
Congratulations to Melissa Lamberton, Sarah Kortemeier and Maureen McHugh for their winning Petrarchan, Shakespearean and Non-Traditional sonnets.
Solar Poetry Contest winners Melissa Lamberton, Sarah Kortemeier, and Maureen McHugh received awards for their first place Petrarchan, Shakespearean, and Non-Traditional “sun sonnets”
at the UA Solar Fusion celebration on August 28. Congratulations to our winners and hats off to AzRise for integrating poetry, music, and art into this celebration of scientific
and technological innovation. Best wishes to the UA team who will participate in the Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C. later this fall.
Read the Prize Winning Sonnets
Learn about the Solar Decathlon | Visit AzRise.org
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Poetry Out Loud National Finalist