Tucson Festival of Books

Memory & Intimacy


Do our memories describe the past or reinvent it? Three poets 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.


Panelists
Robin Becker

Robin Becker is the author of eight books of poetry, including "The Black Bear Inside Me," and the Lambda Award winner, "All-American Girl," both published in the Pitt Poetry series. A Liberal Arts Research Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University, she lives in central Pennsylvania and southwestern New Hampshire....

Laura Da'

Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher. A lifetime resident of the Pacific Northwest, Da’ studied creative writing at the University of Washington and The Institute of American Indian Arts. She has served as Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington, and Poet Planner for King County, Washington....

Sophia Terazawa

Sophia Terazawa is the author of three poetry collections, "Winter Phoenix,"  "Anon," and the forthcoming "Oracular Maladies," a finalist for the 2023 Noemi Press Book Award. She has also published two chapbooks, "I Am Not a War" and "Correspondent Medley," winner of the 2018 Tomaž Šalamun Prize....

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Books:
Midsummer Count
New and Selected Poems
Robin Becker
Poetry
University of New Mexico Press
January 2026
ISBN 9780826369338
162 pages
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Severalty
Poems
Laura Da'
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
September 2025
ISBN 9780816554591
112 pages
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Tetra Nova
Sophia Terazawa
Fiction / Literature
Deep Vellum Publishing
March 2025
ISBN 9781646053568
250 pages
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