University of Arizona Poetry Center

This generative workshop invites poets and prose writers to use archival thinking as a way into new work, exploring how voice, omission, and form can transform inherited material. Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students.

We are proud to present a reading by our 2026 summer poet-in-residence January Gill O’Neil. January Gill O’Neil is a professor at Salem State University and the author of Glitter Road Rewilding Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009).

This workshop brings continuing bonds theory, sympathetic magic, and creative practice together to better understand our ongoing relationships to those we’ve lost. Through storytelling, writing, collage, and bookmaking we’ll consider new ways one might (re)connect and continue building or deepening relationships with an ancestor of your choosing.