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Your community service group, campus club, or other philanthropic organization can help support The University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Stanza Bonanza; a book drive designed to help schools’ libraries build their collections of contemporary poetry. Adopt an area elementary, middle, or high school by pledging to raise a designated amount of money that will enable the Poetry Center to purchase 25 books of poetry for one area school library. If your group is feeling ambitious, you can adopt all three schools in a neighborhood (elementary, middle, high). To purchase single volumes visit our gift registry at http://www.uofabookstores.com/uaz/stanzabonanza.asp

Poetry doesn’t just build language skills, it builds social skills, math skills, and critical thinking skills. Studies show that students who participate in the arts are move likely to participate in a math or science fair; they also out perform their peers on SATs by 103 points.

Stanza Bonanza is a challenge to schools to match our donation and build their collections of poetry with books that represent the aesthetic and cultural diversity of what is being written today. We hope that the currency of these books and the read-a-thon held in conjunction with the program will entice readers, librarians, and teachers to take a closer look at the poetry sections in their libraries.

Any community service group is eligible to adopt a school. Register with Renee Angle at 626-9625 and pledge to raise the needed sum to seed an elementary, middle, or high school with a Stanza Bonanza kit. Monies are due April 11th, 2008. Checks should be made payable to the University of Arizona Foundation—Poetry Center.

Total Cost of Elementary Kit $350.24
Total Cost of Middle School Kit $384.39
Total Cost of High School Kit $359.80


Organizations that adopt a school will have their name on the bookplate of every book that is donated to their school. They will receive a certificate of thank you and a chance to present the kit to their school(s).

All Stanza Bonanza kits will be distributed by May 1st, 2008.

STANZA BONANZA Book drive
Help us to get great poems into the hands of teachers, children, and youth!

Stanza Bonanza is a book drive to seed core kits of poetry in 23 elementary, middle, and high school libraries. Each kit contains 25 books of poetry, expertly selected by poets and librarians.

Here's how you can help:

Participating Schools
List of Participants

High Schools: Amphi, Sabino, Tucson, City High, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, SAZ Community Academy, Marana.

Middle Schools: Townsend, Gridley, Amphi, Maxwell, Wakefield, Safford, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, Doolen, Booth Fickett, Pueblo Gardens, Holladay Intermediate Imago Dei.

Elementary Schools: Van Buskirk, Safford, Lawrence, AZ School for Deaf and Blind, Holaway, Rio Vista, Laura Nobles Banks, Pueblo Gardens, Holladay Intermediate, Castlehill Country Day School.

Dean’s List
Complete Kit (25 books) or partial kit donations
Karen Berk, Roseanna Ryser Family (Renee, Rachelle, Brad), Helen and John Schaefer, Tom Sanders and Chris Treptow, Lois and Richard Shelton, Tony and Susan Luebberman, Boa Editions Ltd., the UA Poetry Center.

Honor Society
Challenge Grants (10 books)
Colleen and Jim Burns, Jeremy Ingalls Estate, Tony Luebbermann, Pat Brooks, Helen and John Schaefer, Jimmye and Helen Hillman, Chuck and Anne Tatum, The Angle Family, Gail Browne, the English and Creative Writing Club, Copper Canyon Press, Hanging Loose Press, Jen Casale, Bob Houston, Chuck and Anne Tatum, Teacher’s and Writer’s Press.

Honor Roll
Single Volume Donations
Boyer Rickel (3), Kate and Leigh Jensen, Maureen McLane, Nancy Pitt, Don Dickinson, Deborah Clifford Gessaman, Frances Sjoberg (5), Katja Kink, Joe O’Connell, Janice Dewey, Rodney Phillips (3), Martha B. Hopkins, Lee Jackson, Mike Tenbroeck, David C. Raskin, Cesar E. Prieto, Dustin C. Staplas, Pete Yonsetto, Ruth MB Gardner, Chris Nelson (4), Jessi Lane, Maurice Grossman, Willie Costley, David and Marsha Irwin, Chris Goldsmith, T.J. Duffy, Molly Knipe Sultan, Charles LeFevour, Cindy Peterson, Cynthia Holmes, Geraldine Connolly, Esai Alvarez, Lisa Ciccarello, Peter Turchi, Thomas Sanders, Pat Brooks, Megan Coe, Monique Sous, Bill Root, David Vandenberg, Luis Borboa, Bianca Quijada, Karina Moreno, Margaret Rooker, Mika Taylor, Jeff and Kathleen Harrison, Christine Dykgraaf, Denise Grenier in honor of Esai Alvarez (2), Chris Schafer, Alison Deming, Chris Scaefer, Christine Dykgraaf, Deborah McMillan, Rie and Keith Gentzler, Paul Ingram, Carrie Brennan, Mike Mann, Chris Stern, ME Bartholomew, Gail Browne, New Directions Press (6).