with STAN MIR
Brickbat Books
All-Ages, free
Books available for purchase
Photon Poetry and The Lab Present
A night of poetry and dance. Black tie encouraged.
7pm. $12.
403 Mountain Rd NW, Albuquerque, NM
Voices in the Library
Swan Quill West is proud to partner with the Santa Fe International Literary Festival to offer a community writing workshop at the Santa Fe Public Library.
Free of charge and open to all, this space for writing and self-expression will also invite participants from the Voice Project and Vital Spaces Unhoused Art, whose work will be featured in the library’s upstairs gallery.
Guest authors include Jake Skeets, Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Logan Phillips, Tucson Poet Laureate, Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta, and Deborah Jackson Taffa, author of Whisky Tender.
Join us on Friday, May 15th at the Main Branch of the Santa Fe Public Library.
1:00-3:00 Workshop to write, create, collaborate, and make new friends.
3:00-4:00 The event culminates in a public reading, where freshly generated prose, poetry, and visual art will be shared and celebrated.
Free. Books available for sale.
TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2026
WORKSHOP: 4-5:45 PM | READING 6-6:30 PM
PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED | SPACE IS LIMITED
THE POETIC UNIT:
BUILDING DETAILED, MINIMALIST WORLDS WORKSHOP & READING
Many painters and ceramicists describe working at the scale of the human hand. For a poet, the working unit is a breath. Most poets are familiar with line breaks and stanzas, but how can we look even more closely at how we parse language on the page?
Poet and author LoGAN PHILLIPs discusses how developing a new relationship to "the poetic unit" unlocked a process of generative revision and original writing that became his latest book Reckon (The University of Arizona Press, 2026). Techniques such as caesura, parataxis, volta and genre hybridity are defined and offered as possible tools for use by poets
—all in an accessible and playful atmosphere.
22 Historic Rte. 66
Free entry, $10 contribution if possible
“We are excited to welcome poet Logan Phillips for a reading and signing of his new hybrid memoir, Reckon. Logan will be in conversation with local poet and friend of Bookworks, Hakim Bellamy.”
4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM 87107, United States
Title: Imagined Borders
Location: Student Union Kiva
Date/Time: Sunday, March 15, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Panelists: Susan Briante, Jose Hernandez Díaz, Logan Phillips
Moderators: Gabriel Palacios
Signing Area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor
Description: Poetry allows us to ask difficult questions like: Why do we have borders? What are borders, where do they come from, and how do they shape our language? Three poets investigate these questions, challenging the borders of place, identity, genre, history, and language.
Location:Integrated Learning Center Room 119
Date/Time:Sunday, 11:30 am to 12:25 pm
Panelist:Logan Phillips
Moderator:Matthew Landon
Genre:Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
In this workshop, poet and author Logan Phillips will share strategies and exercises for inviting hybridity into memoir writing, transgressing genre to draw on the strengths of poetry, essay, screenplay, even photography and collage.
Date: Sunday, March 15, 2026
Time: 10-10:50 a.m.
Location: University of Arizona Mall (Booth #TBD
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2026
Time: 3:30 - 4:00pm
Location: University of Arizona Mall - Tucson Sentinel booth
Location: Student Union Kiva
Date/Time: Saturday, March 14, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Panelists: Logan Phillips, Sophia Terazawa, Danielle Williams
Moderators: Cameron Quan
Signing Area: Sales & Signing Area - UA Campus Store Main Floor
Description
From the musical incantation of lyric to the political rhythms of slam, what role does performance play in bringing poems to life? Join three electrifying poets who expertly translate their words from the printed page to the human voice and hear them discuss their approaches to enacting language.
Thursday, 2-3pm: Book signing at The University of Arizona Press, Booth #838
Saturday, 10-11am: Book signing at The University of Arizona Press, Booth #838
AWP26 Offsite Reading
Bethh Invitational
Friday, March 6 2026
Adees’s Coffee & Bar
1625 Fleet St
Doors 6:30pm
Reading 7:00pm
Logan Phillips
Sadie Dupuis
Geramee Hensley
Rodrigo Toscano
Zack Peckham
Kevin Latimer
Join us at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe on February 25 at 7 pm for a reading from Reckon, followed by a conversation with producer Mary Stephens about the role of poetry and literature during a moment of resurgent white supremacy and political violence, and about how men can meaningfully confront the legacies they inherit. Stephens is the founder and director of Border/Arte, whose work interrogates the racialized and gendered production of nationhood in the US/MX borderlands. Her practice is rooted in site-specific cultural organizing and bi-national artistic collaborations. Together, Phillips and Stephens bring a sharp lens to the demands of this moment to reckon honestly with the histories they carry, the violences they benefit from, and the responsibilities they must claim. This event invites all of us, and white audiences in particular, to step more fully into the work of memory, repair, healing, and collective accountability.
What does it mean to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona, a town where myth, masculinity, and whiteness have long performed a narrative of American nationhood? In Reckon (2026), artist and poet Logan Phillips returns to the fabled site of his childhood to confront the frontier stories he inherited as a boy: gunfights, outlaws, Hollywood cowboys, and the racial and gendered power structures that sustained them. This hybrid memoir blends essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings, and screenplay fragments to examine sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and the contradictions of loving a landscape built on erasure and “slathered in murder. ” Moving through the Tombstone of the 1980s and 90s, where daily reenactments and museum displays reinforced a nostalgic masculinity, Phillips exposes a history far more complex than the one he was raised on and maps how empire and patriarchy shape belonging, narrative, and American nationhood.
Central School Project Presents:
with
(Reckon, The University of Arizona Press 2026)
and
(Southwest Reconstruction, Noemi Press 2025)
43 Howell Ave., Bisbee, Arizona
6:30pm doors 7:00pm show
All-ages, Pay-what-you-will
No one turned away for lack of funds
Book signing to follow
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Don’t miss this dynamic reading by two poets whose vital new books consider the histories and mythologies of the American Southwest in new light!
What does it mean to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona, a town where myth, masculinity, and whiteness have long performed a narrative of American nationhood? In Reckon, artist and poet Logan Phillips returns to the fabled site of his childhood to confront the frontier stories he inherited as a boy: gunfights, outlaws, Hollywood cowboys, and the racial and gendered power structures that sustained them. This hybrid memoir blends essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings, and screenplay fragments to examine sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and the contradictions of loving a landscape built on erasure and “slathered in murder.” Moving through the Tombstone of the 1980s and 90s, where daily reenactments and museum displays reinforced a nostalgic masculinity, Phillips exposes a history far more complex than the one he was raised on, and maps how empire and patriarchy shape belonging, narrative, and American nationhood. Dirtyverbs.com
Southwest Reconstruction is Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut poetry collection, a disquieting journey through the uncharted dreamspace of memory and loss, expulsion and shelter, family and recognition. Enacting an eclectic range of forms and echoes drawn from the relational complexities that occupy the difficult terrains of unceded land; these are critical improvisations of creation and closures of the imperceptible sense of displacement, and the interconnecting routes that map the vastness of desire to belong. Divided into three sections, the vocal registers in Southwest Reconstruction act as the noisy divining rod for both kinship and ancestral communication; a sonic brown butch vernacular strumming notes out of sorrow and mettle. Written over the course of almost ten years in the Southern Arizona landscape, these poems function as a psychic Thomas Guide diving into the wreck of settler logics looming large in the rearview mirror of mestizaje and the mythological ruptures left in their wake. Raquelgutierrez.net
All ages. No cover, pay-what-you-will.
6:30pm Doors, music with Humblelianess & DJQ
6:45 opening music set by Alluvium
7:00 Logan Phillips reads from RECKON
8:00 Book signing, music by Humblelianess & DJQ
9:00 End
A one-of-a-kind night celebrating the release of poet Logan Phillips’ new book, RECKON, published by The University of Arizona Press.
“What was it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona? In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.” – The University of Arizona Press
“A full-throated consideration of the antecedent of sultry desert queerness—the cowboy.” – Raquel Gutierrez
Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in Tucson. He is author of the books Reckon (The University of Arizona Press, 2026) and Sonoran Strange, as well as the ongoing NoVoGRAFíAS series. Holding collaboration as a core creative practice, Phillips has contributed to a wide range of performance, music and community-centered education projects in the US, Mexico, Colombia and beyond. His website and newsletter are at Dirtyverbs.com.
I’m bringing my years of experience teaching writing online to a space OUTSIDE the academy, open to all!
A two-hour seminar on bringing the tools and practices of poetry into any writing practice.
I’m collaborating with my good friends at Margo Steines Creative to bring this seminar to life. Come learn what poetry can add to your practice!
Scholarships available.
“It’s often the case that prose writers and artists hold both a reverence and fear of poetry. “Poetry is the most pure form of writing, it offers the most freedom,” they might say in one breath, followed by “and I don’t understand it at all.” At the heart of this contradiction is the truth that too much creative freedom can be intimidating: when anything is possible, where and how do we begin? This course is an invitation to demystify the tools and processes of poetry writing, thus making them available to writers and artists across disciplines and genres.
We’ll take an all-levels approach that explores insights from “the basics” of line breaks and the mechanics of metaphor to what can be learned from exploring the materiality of language and linguistic logics. Together we’ll read poems by Daniel Borzutsky, Marie Howe, Simon J. Ortiz, Saretta Morgan, and others.
A variety of techniques for structuring a creative practice will be offered with the understanding that poetry is a process, not a product.
The course is open to all writers and artists of any experience level. Some previous experimentation with writing is recommended but not required.
At the conclusion of the class, students will leave with new creative experiments to use to inform their own work, as well as the seeds of new writing, poems or otherwise.”
Playing a full night of cumbias, dub, rare bangers & surprises at La Esquina Saturday on their Funktion-One soundsystem — come early to vibe & stay late to dance. Free. #Tucson 📸: Julius S.
DJing with Sonido Tambó (DJQ & Humblelianess) at this festival at the San Xavier District, Tohono O’odham Nation. MORE INFO TBA
Community - Music - Food - Arts and Crafts
San Xavier Co-op Farm
Ge’e S-he:pijig Masad - December 6, 2025
12:00pm to 10:00pm
Author
Event host & publisher
6:30pm doors • 7:00pm Reading & book signing
Free • All-Ages
350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson, AZ
“These are poems of witness, essential soul testimony from the scenes of a paranoid society’s crimes. And they offer glimpses of how we stay human without looking away: cultivating wonder, raising children, fighting like hell for the beauty still woven all around and through us.”
Playing a full night of cumbias, dub, rare bangers & surprises at La Esquina Saturday on their Funktion-One soundsystem — come early to vibe & stay late to dance. Free. #Tucson 📸: Julius S.
Sound art / video / spoken word set, my debut at DESERT DRONE
Friday October 3rd, 7pm doors
Wave Archive - 197 E. Toole Ave, Tucson
Charmaine Lee (amazing touring act)
Logan Phillips (sound art / video / spoken word)
Alluvium (some of my local favs)
$12-20
No one turned away for lack of funds
Wednesday, October 1
Hosted by Lydia Paar
Poetry reading w/the amazing Margo Steines.
Free.
Drinks, snacks, N/A available.
¡PURO BAILE! Cumbias, reggaeton, merengue y más ritmos sabrosos con DJ DIRTYVERBS en Barrio Viejo, #Tucson, Sonorizona: 382 S Convent Ave. SATURDAY 9/20 7-10pm, feat. large-scale video projection. You gonna be there?!
Closing party for the RADIANT RUINS gallery show. Last chance to acquire a one-of-one NoVoGRAFíAS print from the show. Online buyers pleas contact the gallery.
Celebrating art, community & resilience on Convent Ave where some of the most significant moments of my life have gone down. ¡Ritmo & Liberación!
Communion on Convent
382 S. Convent Avenue
Tucson, Arizona
Oh yes there’s more of RADIANT RUIN! The gallery show runs through 9/20, open Fri, Sat & Sun afternoons. One-of-one metal prints are still available – come see them all together while you can! This show won’t be repeated.
We’ll be hosting an artist talk with Logan and Sydney Ballesteros Friday 9/12 7-8pm, going behind-the-scenes on process, hidden connections between NoVoGRAFíAS projects, plus Q&A. Free – join us!
Last but not least: a 3 hour DJ set by Dirtyverbs himself at the RADIANT RUIN closing block party, Sat. 9/20 7-10pm. Cumbias on Convent Ave. under the stars – plus the video installation will be back up for the final night! An entry fee is requested to support the work of the gallery and artist, but you decide what to pay (including $0 if that’s what makes sense for you right now).
Photos and video of the opening and performance piece coming soon, stay tuned – it was a special one! Thanks all who came out.
Don’t miss these next opportunities to engage this unique show before it’s finished.
RADIANT RUIN is the closing ritual for the most recent cycle of NoVoGRAFíAS by Logan Phillips. A gallery show curated by Phillips and Sydney Ballesteros of COMMUNION featuring a set of metal prints, each in an edition of one, never to be reproduced in this format. The prints are drawn from Phillips’ work in the triptych of the “urban psychogeography spellbooks” NoVoGRAFÍAS 02, 03 & 04. Combining elements of photography, collage, sigilism and visual poetry, these images come from the intersections of dream logic and the quotidian built environment, exploring cycles of capitalist colonialism and concurrent time, as witnessed from the vantage of Phillips’ home in downtown Tucson, Arizona.
Since 2010 the NoVoGRAFÍAS series has been poet Logan Phillips’ vehicle to research and develop new approaches to writing and performance. Through installations, durational performance, art objects and print, Phillips explores the somatic experience of poem arriving to poet, hypnogogia and threshold consciousness, spells and the built environment of the aridlands.
dirtyverbs.com
Join us for a Tucson summer evening of art + music featuring a performance by Logan Phillips (spoken word / video projection / sound sculpture) and music by an incredible line up of DJ’s: Humblelianess, DJQ and Menopause the DJ. 7-10pm, all ages, FREE, Performance at 8pm
