The calendar below features upcoming Arts Commission deadlines, events, information sessions and workshop opportunities. Times, dates and event details may be subject to change. For more information, please email [email protected].
Join Goodyear Arts & Culture Commission on February 23, 2016, at 7:00pm to hear Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios share about his life and literary work. Light refreshments will be served. This program is offered for free and does not require registration.
For more info, please contact Goodyear Arts & Culture Commission at 623-882-7530.
Join the Arizona Historical Society for an evening with Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Ríos. Ríos will share some of his work and discuss the role that oral history plays in his writing. A native of Nogales, Arizona, Ríos writes about life along the U.S. and Mexico border, blending the personal with the political in a way that makes us see both in a new light.
For more information, contact the Arizona Historical Society Archives at: 520-617-1157 [email protected]. A flyer about the event can be seen by clicking here.
Presented by the Arizona Historical Society, in partnerships with with the University of Arizona’s Spanish and Portuguese & the Gender and Women’s Studies Departments,
This event and all events in the Nuestro Tucson series are made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Association.
The 2017 Poetry Out Loud National Finals will be held April 25-26, 2017 at the Lisner Auditorium at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. The semifinals and finals will be webcast live. Click here to view details of the webcast or to host a viewing party.
Don’t forget to follow the action on Twitter @poetryoutloud and #POL17.
On Saturday, March 11, nine exceptional young people will compete for the opportunity to represent the State of Arizona at the Poetry Out Loud National Finals in Washington, DC, and a shot at the grand prize: a $20,000 college scholarship.
Live Webcast
1:00 pm, Saturday, March 11, 2023
Visit https://poetry.arizona.edu/poetry-out-loud for more information.
