POG presents

Sunday, December 5, 7pm

Poet Lisa Cooper

Visual Artist George Welch

WILDE PLAYHOUSE, 135 E. Congress Street, Tucson

Admission: $5; Students $3

Lisa Cooper grew up in Tucson, eventually earning an MFA in creative wrting from the University of Arizona in 1989. Chax Press published her full-length collection of poems, & Calling It Home, in 1998, and she won an Arizona Commission on the Arts fellowship in 2001. Other poems have been published
in numerous literary magazines, including New American Writing, Talisman, Sonora Review, Hambone, Spork, and others. Her interests include music, visual art, local history and culture, and the politics of the U.S./Mexico border. She claims that she has now lived in Tucson for so long that summer has become her favorite time of year. She works as a book editor for Rio Nuevo Publishers.

 George Welch began in the Bronx but has been in Tucson for more than two decades, and was one of the original artists teaching when Pima College's West Campus broke ground. With a master's degree from Bank Street College in New York, Welch has been painting for 34 years. He is a color field lyrical abstractionist, and his concerns are chaos, order, yin-yang, and reconciliation, i.e. with the entire ground of the spiritual in art. Recently he has been working with illuminants in his exploration of  spiritual and intellectual enlightenment.

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. 

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