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from the Assistant Director:

Morgan Lucas Schuldt died on January 30, 2012, at the age of 33. I can’t seem to find a way to transform that sentence into something that makes sense or makes good. He was a friend and, honestly, one of the smartest poets I’ve known.

The dying have not stopped dying, they are just separated from their bodies. He said, Pretend to be habited. As the grateful/ take your body, and go.

I have this idea that if I think about someone’s death hard enough, the body will surrender to coming back. If language has the power to cause violence (how one grief calls up so many others), the opposite, therefore, must also be true. As writers, I believe, it is this suturing that we are continually trying to make do.

When people talk about Morgan they often use words like poet warrior, strength, and inspiration. He had cystic fibrosis and what that means is that his body was constantly creating mucus to clog up his lungs. While he and I never talked specifically about etymology, we did talk about our bodies and how they made us friends. Two poets in two bodies trying to use language to become whole. L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E, he said. The brain works with the body, not separate from it. Inspire comes from the Latin, spirare. (He gave us this. And may we give it back.) To breathe into.

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Morgan's obituary is here.

There will be a memorial for Morgan at the UA Poetry Center on Saturday, April 14.

To become an organ donor, go here.

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- TC Tolbert, Assistant Director

Community Connections

POG Reading: Myung Mi Kim & Jamison Crabtree
Saturday February 18, 2012, 7pm
$5 / $3 students / The Drawing Studio / 33 S 6th Ave, Tucson / 520-615-7803 for information
IN ADDITION: The reading will also be preceded a week earlier, Sat. Feb. 11 at 2pm, by a free POG Session featuring the work of these two poets, at Espresso Arts Cafe, 942 E University Blvd (upstairs); see gopog.org for details.

UA Poetry Center

• Exhibit Reception for BeMine: Collaborations between Writers and Artists
  02/13/2012 - 5:30pm - 7:00p
• Love Notes: A Collaboration of Dance and Poetry
  02/14/2012 - 02/17/2012
• Marie Howe
  02/16/2012 - 7:00pm

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WORKSHOPS

2/20-4/16: Counterfeiting: A Craft Seminar and Writing Laboratory w/Kristi Maxwell and Michael Rerick
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4/3-5/8:The Art & Craft of Telling Personal Stories
w/ Penelope Starr
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4/23-5/14:Documentary Poetry: a writing workshop
w/Brandon Shimoda
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5/11-5/13: Short Prose Forms: a writing weekend w/Rebecca Brown
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EVENTS

2/21: Trickhouse Live:
An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Khara Ellasante, Ernesto Somoza, and Rae Strozzo
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2/24: Curiosity Symposium: on the topic of Self-portrait
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3/9: Border Justice Reading w/ Leon De la Rosa-Carrillo and John Washington
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3/21: Edge Reading w/Mark Haunschild, Daisy Pitkin, and Shelly Taylor
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3/23: WIP UA MFA Student Reading Series
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3/29: Farewell Reading w/Beth Alvarado, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and Arianne Zwartjes
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ONGOING

Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
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Read Betwen the Bars
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