Aging and the Arts Poetry Circle: Ofelia Zepeda and Allison Deming

Join us for a monthly poetry discussion led by The University of Arizona Poetry Center docents. This event is free, and no preparation or knowledge of poetry is necessary to participate. A reading packet will be shared. For anyone who enjoys poetry or learning more about poets in a conversational setting, this informal gathering includes many opportunities to contribute to the conversation and ask questions. It is also a great way to meet people in the community who have similar interests. The discussion will feature the work of poets Ofelia Zepeda and Allison Deming.

Alison Hawthorne Deming has two books forthcoming in 2025: the poetry anthology The Gift of Animals: A Celebration of Animals and the People Who Love Them from Storey Press and the new poetry collection Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower from Red Hen Press. Her most recent nonfiction book A WOVEN WORLD: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress was published by Counterpoint Press in 2021. Her most recent poetry books are (Penguin 2016) and , a collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom (George F. Thomson 2016). The essay collection was published by Milkweed Editions in 2014. She is the author of (LSU Press, 1994), winner of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets; (LSU, 1997), (Penguin Poets, 2005), and (Penguin Poets, 2009); and three additional nonfiction books, (Mercury House, 1994; Picador USA, 1996), (Picador USA, 1998), finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and (Milkweed, Credo Series). She edited (Columbia University Press, 1996) and co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy (Milkweed, 2002; revised and expanded edition, 2011).

Ofelia Zepeda is a Tohono O’odham poet and professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her works include Where Clouds are Formed (2008), Ocean Power (1995), Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks (1995), A Papago Grammar (1983), and When It Rains, Papago and Pima Poetry = Mat hekid o ju, ‘O’odham Na-cegitodag (1982).

The Aging and the Arts Poetry Circle will take place in the Dorothy Rubel Room at the University of Arizona Poetry Center or in favorable weather conditions in the immediately adjacent breezeway. The event venue offers appropriate room for social distancing.

The University of Arizona Poetry Center is located at 1508 E. Helen St. Tucson, AZ 85721. Complimentary parking will be available adjacent to the building.

Please register by April 26.

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