Poem archive
Read poems by Arizona and Southwestern writers, plus classic work preserved in the AZPoetry literary archive.
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2026
“I MET HANK IN 1968” by Michael C. Ford is a poem centered on place and geography, memory, family. Its imagery is anchored in Chicago, Los Angeles. The poem develops its subject through recurring images and shifts in emotional pressure rather than reducing the experience to a single statement.
2025
Campana imagines returning to school to invent a bomb that kills nobody and merely knocks everyone in the world onto their backside, replacing mass destruction with a shared moment of ridiculousness.
2025
Two characters, Jojo and Loretta, are introduced as people who have moved away from where they supposedly belong, while the recurring refrain repeatedly commands them to “get back.” Jojo’s departure specifically begins in Tucson, Arizona.
