In this free community write-in, participants will explore the theme of hope and renewal through the transformative power of poetry. The session will feature guided writing prompts inspired by renowned poems that embody these qualities, fostering creativity and reflection as attendees craft their own new poems. Participants will have the opportunity to share and discuss
Informed by years of research and banned in Arizona upon publication, Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway paints a harrowing portrait of America’s boiling border deserts and the determined migrants who attempt the crossing. So effective was Urrea’s research, in fact, that it became the first book banned in Arizona for being “satanic” and “un-American.”Event
Join us at the Hugo House on April 10th as we welcome back Jasmine Elizabeth Smith, whose book Gone South, is a love letter to the prophetic howl of the blues, and Jen Soriano, whose new collection of lyric essays, Nervous, sings the need to counter our collective anxiety with radical tenderness, along with Ari B. Cofer, whose poems are sonorous, sensual, and
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