"Juke Box," a drawing by the Elizabeth Bishop. 
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Marie Howe and Marth Rothko. Charles Bernstein and Susan Bee. Jane Miller and Ando Hiroshige. John Berryman and Ben Shahn. Nearly 30 of the Poetry Center's most eye-catching book covers will be featured as we explore the relationship between contemporary poetry and visual art. "Cover Me" includes such delights as Elizabeth Bishop illustrated by Elizabeth Bishop, the anonymous talking dogs of David Meltzer's BARK: A Polemic, and poets' own words on the art of the cover and the text within.
LaVerne Harell ClarkLaVerne Harrell Clark was the first Director of the Poetry Center and an avid photographer of the many visiting poets and writers who passed through Tucson. Her photographic portraits were a gift to the Poetry Center upon her passing in 2008. They often seem to capture the special nature of the poet being photographed, and are formally interesting as well.
AiAi is an award-winning poet who received her MFA from the University of California, grew up in Tucson, and has taught in various institutions including presently at Oklahoma State University. Her work is passionate and colorful, and includes a score of invented personae of compelling interest.
Jeremy Ingalls and ChinaJeremy Ingalls was fascinated by Asian literature and culture. She was Professor of English and Asian Studies at Rockford College, where she integrated the study and translation of Asian literature into the curriculum, including the translation of Asian texts in Freshman Composition courses. As a Fulbright Professor of American Literature at Kobe College, she spent three years living in Japan. She was also Rockefeller Foundation Lecturer in Kyoto for a time. Ingalls studied Chinese at the University of Chicago and translated several Asian works, including Yao Hsin-Nung’s Chinese play The Malice of Empire (London, 1970). She wrote several reviews of Chinese works and translations for Saturday Review and other magazines. Her interest in things Chinese varied widely, including a study of Ezra Pound’s Cantos and translations of Chairman Mao’s poetry. Many of her own poems were influenced by the serene wisdom of much of Chinese poetry:
Over the rocks the nervous ants Past exhibitions are archived online:
Shine and shine the mica jewels.
Here is a grasshopper. The ants scurry.
The children forget their battles to go home to
peaceful suppers.
A loaded fishing boat comes heavily to harbor.
The gulls follow, screaming.
It is the same greedy world, poet.
From “A Message to Tu Fu”
