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What happens in the West doesn’t stay in the West. Logan Phillips, the Poet Laureate of Tucson, Arizona, comes to Philadelphia for two dynamic spoken word performances from his new book RECKON, featur...

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Worried about the future of democracy in the United States? Look to Indigenous histories; they have much to teach us about the struggle between liberty and empire.

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In 2015, state legislatures across the United States considered 75 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 27 targeted gender identity.1 In 2025, that total reached 1,059—with 851 of the current-session bills targ...

Logan Phillips will serve as Tucson’s new poet laureate, bringing a vision to make poetry more accessible to communities across the city. “It’s deeply meaningful to be recognized for the work that I’v...

Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.

Our city's newest poet laureate, "RECKON" and "Sonoran Strange" author Logan Phillips will hold the title through 2029, Arts Foundation and city officials announced Monday.

Logan Phillips' book, 'Reckon,' tackles growing up in southern Arizona, his own family history, and contending with the stories told about the Wild West.

There was once a separatist community in the middle of the desert — made up entirely of women — outside of Tucson. It was called Adobeland.

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Wall-sickness, or Mauerkrankheit, is a German term for a psychological malady that infected people who lived near the Berlin Wall. That wall came down over three decades ago, but the idea of “wall-sic...

Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhoo...

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This blog post was shared by Writing the Community teaching artist Logan Phillips, on Tracy K. Smith's latest release: Fear Less: Poetry in Perilous Times. The Poetry Center's K-12 Education Departmen...

One Tucson family’s harrowing journey from Venezuela through the heart of the anti-immigrant policies of México and the U.S.