52 Episodes

  1. Kwame Dawes: Cleansing as Fire

    Published: 1/29/2025
  2. Mackenzie Polonyi: Mycorrhizal Love

    Published: 1/15/2025
  3. Abigail Chabitnoy: The Field

    Published: 1/1/2025
  4. Diego Báez: Three Gabriels

    Published: 12/11/2024
  5. Valerie Hsiung: Breath Mover

    Published: 11/27/2024
  6. Geffrey Davis: The Drive to Connect

    Published: 11/13/2024
  7. Vickie Vértiz: Path to a Future

    Published: 8/7/2024
  8. Eugenia Leigh: Proclaim a Rising

    Published: 7/24/2024
  9. Mary Jo Bang: Astonishment

    Published: 7/10/2024
  10. Olatunde Osinaike: Nobody Gets to Question What I Feel

    Published: 6/26/2024
  11. Sawako Nakayasu: Grief Textures

    Published: 1/31/2024
  12. Jake Skeets: Saad, Where We All Started

    Published: 12/13/2023
  13. Sally Wen Mao: Poetic Awakening

    Published: 11/29/2023
  14. Lauren Camp: Our Little Perfections

    Published: 11/15/2023
  15. Sophia Terazawa: Enemy, Beloved

    Published: 7/26/2023
  16. Bonus: Radical Reversal in Birmingham

    Published: 4/12/2023
  17. Manuel Paul López: Small and Immense Mysteries

    Published: 3/29/2023
  18. Evie Shockley: Courage to Speak, Courage to Hear

    Published: 8/24/2022
  19. JD Pluecker: Always Returning

    Published: 8/10/2022
  20. Juan Felipe Herrera: Humanity, Compassion, Action, Protest

    Published: 7/27/2022

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Poetry Centered features curated selections from Voca, the University of Arizona Poetry Center’s online audiovisual archive of more than 1,000 recordings of poets reading their work during visits to the Center between 1963 and today. In each episode, a guest poet introduces three poems from Voca, sharing their insights about the remarkable performances recorded in our archive. Each episode concludes with the guest poet reading a poem of their own.