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The Poet’s Voice: Conversations with the Archive
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Poetry Centered, a new podcast from the University of Arizona Poetry Center, invites poets to curate selections from Voca, the center’s online audiovisual archive of 1,000+ recorded readings from 1963 to today. In each episode, new constellations of meaning emerge, coalescing as intergenerational conversations across time and space. The producers and three poets who have hosted episodes will reflect on voices they encountered in the archive and how this experience shaped their present thinking.
Participants
Diana Marie Delgado is the author of the poetry collection Tracing the Horse. She graduated with a master of fine arts in poetry from Columbia University and is the literary director at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Julie Swarstad Johnson is a poet and the archivist and outreach librarian for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania Furnace and the chapbook Orchard Light. She is the coeditor of the anthology Beyond Earth's Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (2021 George Garrett Award for Outstanding Community Service in Literature winner)'s books include Look at This Blue, Burn, Streaming, Blood Run, and Effigies III. Distinguished professor at UC Riverside, she teaches in creative writing and the School of Medicine, directs UCR Writers Week, Lit Sandhill CraneFest, and Along the Chaparral.
Francisco Aragón is the author of Puerta del Sol, and Glow of Our Sweat. He is also the editor of the award-winning anthology, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. A third book, After Rubén, is forthcoming. He directs Letras Latinas, the literary program at Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies.
Urayoán Noel is an associate professor of English and Spanish at NYU and also teaches at Stetson University's MFA of the Americas. Noel's books include Buzzing Hemisphere/Rumor Hemisférico and Transversal.
