A Celebration of the Poetry and Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
Please join us for a unique afternoon of poetry at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Date: Sunday, March 6th, 2016
Program
- 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
- Readings by contributors to the newly released The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide
Remarks by Craig Ivanyi, Executive Director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Warden Oasis Theater - 3:00 p.m.
- Book Signings, Taylor Plaza
- 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
- Visits to the Woven Words Poetry Installations on the Museum grounds
Reservations
Thank you so much for your interest, there are no more seats available for this event.
Featured Poets and Presenters
- Craig Ivanyi
- Craig Ivanyi is the Executive Director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, where he has worked since 1984 in various positions, including Collections Manager and Curator of Herpetology. His background is in wildlife and fisheries, with an emphasis on reptiles, amphibians, and freshwater fishes, as well as in the interpretation of Sonoran Desert herpetofauna for the general public. His current focus is on museum administration and conservation of the Sonoran Desert Region.
- Kristen Nelson Website
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- Ken Lamberton Website
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- Wendy Burk
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- M.E. Wakamatsu
- M. E. Wakamatsu was born in the border town of San Luis R.C., Sonora, Mexico. The daughter of a Mexican mother and Japanese father, she writes from the border between cultures, between patterns of discourse, between first and third worlds. She graduated from Arizona State University.
- Rebecca Seiferle
- Rebecca Seiferle was appointed Tucson poet laureate in 2012. Her fourth poetry collection, Wild Tongue (Copper Canyon Press), won the 2008 Grub Street National Poetry Prize. She was awarded a 2004 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry.
- Farid Matuk
- Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta Press, 2013). His poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Poetry, Iowa Review, Critical Quarterly, and Baffler, among others. Matuk is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of Arizona.
- Josh Wilkinson Website
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- Kimi Eisele Website
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- Ofelia Zepeda
- Ofelia Zepeda is a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation and is currently regents’ professor of linguistics and director of the American Indian Language Development Institute at the University of Arizona. She has published three books of poetry, including poems in the O’odham language.
- Eric Magrane Website
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- Chris Cokinos
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- Paul Mirocha
- Paul Mirocha’s illustrations first appeared in Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan, winner of the John Burroughs Medal for natural history in 1985. Since then he has illustrated over twenty picture books for children on plants and animals, as well as works by contemporary nature writers, among them Jean Craighead George and Barbara Kingsolver. Mirocha’s work is included in The Very Best of Children’s Book Illustration, compiled by the Society of Illustrators.
Woven Words is an exciting collaboration that pairs two Tucson cultural institutions: the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. The project features numerous poetry installations throughout the Museum grounds, each underscoring the profound relationship between knowledge, the imagination, and an ethos of conservation.
![ASDM and UofA Poetry Center logos](/images/poetry/asdm_uofapoetry_logo_400.png)