In this session, two acclaimed women will share their innovative approaches to poetry. In a discussion of poetic craft, influences, and futures, panelists will read from their new books and explore the intersections of gender, sexuality, form, voice, and language. (Unfortunately, Felicia Zamora will not be taking part in this session as originally planned.)

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sat, Mar 14, 10:00 am - 10:55 am
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Robin Becker, Carol Moldaw
Moderator: Julie Johnson
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of City of Tucson, Max McCauslin and John Smith, The Cunningham Family

Midsummer Count: New and Selected Poems Midsummer Count collects the best work of Robin Becker, considered by many to be the foremost feminist poet of her generation. With selections from each of her previously published books and nearly thirty new poems, readers enter Becker’s lifelong exploration of childhood, animals, cherished places, complex friendships, and romantic intimacy. A life-affirming current yokes these narratives across time, even as a sister’s early suicide haunts the decades. In blank and free verse, in couplets, quatrains, and sonnets, the poet wrestles with formal tensions, creating a present-day idiom for beauty, grief, and compassion. Lovers of Becker’s work and those new to it will find in Midsummer Count a master class by one of today’s most dynamic poets.

University of New Mexico Press, Booth #240 (Seats 1)
Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Poetry

Author: Robin Becker

Do our memories describe the past or reinvent it? Today, two accomplished poets will allow us intimate access to their histories, traumas, and triumphs, demonstrating how poetry can be a vehicle to confront legacies of violence while embracing radical methods of survival and resistance. (Unfortunately, Laura Da' will not take part in this session as originally planned.)

Student Union Kiva (Seats 100)  
Sun, Mar 15, 10:00 am - 10:55 am
Poetry
Signing area: Sales & Signing - UA Campus Store Main Floor (following presentation)  

Panelists: Robin Becker, Sophia Terazawa
Moderator: Farid Matuk
Sponsors: Session made possible courtesy of City of Tucson, Max McCauslin and John Smith, Desert Diamond Casinos