Vintage Poetry Center Posters
Installation of several framed vintage posters hanging on a white gallery wall.
In the sixties and seventies, visual art students at the University of Arizona collaborated with the University of Arizona Poetry Center to create silkscreened publicity posters for Poetry Center readings. These colorful, exuberant works are emblematic of the times as well as the legendary poets whose visits they commemorate—among them Ai, Elizabeth Bishop, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Denise Levertov, and Gary Snyder. Originally posted as flyers on notice boards and in high school classrooms, they are now extremely scarce. In collaboration with the Poetry Center, the Poetry Foundation displays these iconic works outside Tucson, Arizona, for the first time.
Gallery Talk: Wendy Burk, Poetry Center Librarian discusses the exhibition with artist and printmaker April Sheridan from Columbia College's Center for Book and Paper Arts at noon on June 17.
Exhibit Hours
Monday — Friday, 11 AM — 4 PM
Saturday, May 14, 10 AM – 3 PM
Tuesday, May 17, 4 PM – 7 PM