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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Tempe - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading!
Feb
25
7:00 PM19:00

Tempe - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading!

  • Changing Hands Bookstore - Tempe (map)
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Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe

Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 7pm

INFO & RSVP

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.

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Bisbee - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading with Raquel Gutiérrez!
Feb
21
6:30 PM18:30

Bisbee - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading with Raquel Gutiérrez!

Central School Project Presents:

Double Book Launch & Poetry Reading 

with 

Logan Phillips 

(Reckon, The University of Arizona Press 2026) 

and

Raquel Gutiérrez 

(Southwest Reconstruction, Noemi Press 2025)

Saturday, February 21, 2026

Central School Project

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

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Sierra Vista - Multimedia Craft Talk @ Cochise College
Feb
19
3:00 PM15:00

Sierra Vista - Multimedia Craft Talk @ Cochise College

  • Cochise College - Sierra Vista Campus - Student Union Community Room (map)
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RSVP HERE
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Douglas - Author talk @ Cochise College
Feb
19
9:15 AM09:15

Douglas - Author talk @ Cochise College

  • Cochise College - Douglas Campus - Student Union Community Room (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS
RSVP HERE
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Tucson - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading
Feb
15
6:30 PM18:30

Tucson - 'RECKON' Book Release Reading

Logan Phillips
RECKON Book Launch & Reading

Hosted by Natalie Brewster Nguyen
Music by Alluvium, Humblelianess & DJQ

Sunday, 2/15/2026

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.

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Teaching an Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar
Jan
12
5:00 PM17:00

Teaching an Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar

An entirely new type of 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.

Learn more
“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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