Philadelphia: Reckon Reading w/video full set @ Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Night 1)
Sep
17
7:00 PM19:00

Philadelphia: Reckon Reading w/video full set @ Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Night 1)

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Philadelphia: Reckon Reading w/video full set @ Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Night 2)
Sep
21
7:00 PM19:00

Philadelphia: Reckon Reading w/video full set @ Philadelphia Fringe Festival (Night 2)

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Tucson: ¡Somos Uno! Poetry & Storytelling
Oct
10
4:00 PM16:00

Tucson: ¡Somos Uno! Poetry & Storytelling

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Join us Saturday, October 10, 2026, 4-6pm, in Armory Park for POETS IN THE PARK, the official kickoff of the ¡Somos Uno! series – we’ll be celebrating the work of 21 local poets who also organize poetry events across our city. Food! Music! Free!

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Tucson: Author talk @ Tumamoc Hill
Oct
21
6:00 PM18:00

Tucson: Author talk @ Tumamoc Hill

Weds. 10/21 6pm

Tumamoc Hill Boathouse is at the bottom of the hill, a short walk from parking.

What was it like to grow up in Tombstone, Arizona? Find out with Tucson Poet Laureate Logan Phillips, author of Reckon, who will be in conversation with Melani Martinez, author of The Molino: A Memoir. Reckon wrestles with questions of identity, place, and responsibility—inviting readers to confront what it means to live attentively in fraught and changing times. Whether reflecting on the natural world, social justice, or the quiet moments that shape our inner lives, Phillips’ voice offers insight, compassion, and challenge in equal measure. The two authors will explore the themes behind Reckon, the creative process, and the role of poetry as both witness and catalyst. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in conversation and connect with two of Tucson’s most compelling literary voices. Come listen, reflect, and reckon together.

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Tucson: Workshop @ Tucson Botanical Gardens
Aug
29
7:45 AM07:45

Tucson: Workshop @ Tucson Botanical Gardens

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What can the garden teach us about poetry? How might poetry help us articulate what it means to be an earthworker, someone who cares for the earth and all that it gives?

Join Tucson Poet Laureate (and self-described “plant nerd”) Logan Phillips for a playful exploration of writing, sensory awareness, and collaboration with the more-than-human world. No experience necessary!

Together we will read poems from Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Camille Dungy, learn techniques to unlock the healing power of writing, and build creative community. We’ll come away with our own poetic sketches (first drafts) and a new understanding of why you can take the poet out of the garden – but never the garden out of the poet!

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Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar
Aug
13
5:30 PM17:30

Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar

Bringing back a highly successful online offering

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.

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“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.”
— Logan Phillips
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Santa Fe - Workshop @ SF Public Library
May
15
1:00 PM13:00

Santa Fe - Workshop @ SF Public Library

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. 

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Phoenix - Reading @ VIVA PHX w/thems.
Apr
17
5:30 PM17:30

Phoenix - Reading @ VIVA PHX w/thems.

Fruity Poetry Night at VIVA PHX
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Join us for very special open-mic for queer poets, writers, and storytellers from across Arizona at The McKinley Club
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Hosted by thems. 2026 Artists in Residence - Patrick De Leon and Lan Lesmeister ⭐️


Featured Poet - Tucson Poet Laureate Logan Phillips

Art Popups ⭐️ Fruity Refreshments 🌟 Photobooth & more 💫
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🚨 PLS READ🚨

1️⃣Free Event - RSVP in bio 🎟️
2️⃣Seating is first come first serve; standing room available 🪑
3️⃣Sign-ups for performers start at 5:30 PM (must be present to sign up) 🎤
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Bisbee - Workshop & Reading @ Copper Queen Library
Apr
14
4:00 PM16:00

Bisbee - Workshop & Reading @ Copper Queen Library

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.

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Tucson - Reading: "Imagined Borders" panel @ Festival of Books
Mar
15
1:00 PM13:00

Tucson - Reading: "Imagined Borders" panel @ Festival of Books

Tucson Festival of Books 2026

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.

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Tucson - Workshop @ Festival of Books
Mar
15
11:30 AM11:30

Tucson - Workshop @ Festival of Books

Tucson Festival of Books 2026

Workshop: Hybrid Writing in Memoirs

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.

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Tucson - Reading: "Sing, Slam, Shout!" panel @ Festival of Books
Mar
14
1:00 PM13:00

Tucson - Reading: "Sing, Slam, Shout!" panel @ Festival of Books

Tucson Festival of Books 2026

Sing, Slam, Shout!

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.

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