Welcome to the Poetics and Politics website, brought to you by the English Department at the University of Arizona. Thanks to many hours of hard work and the miracle of modern technology, we have been able to recreate for you the groundbreaking Poetics and Politics reading series, held at the University of Arizona from February through May 1992. The series, which featured 13 of the country's most accomplished American Indian writers, not only examined the extraordinary emergence of Native American literature, but presented that literature within a living context. 

Within these pages, we have done our best to preserve the series as it unfolded in 1992, including providing you with the original author introductions and seminar transcripts, accompanied by a series of articles that appeared in the Tucson Weekly newspaper. Finally, we have provided a web link that allows you to actually watch the authors' readings as they happened back in 1992. 

Series Background, by Professor Larry Evers.

For a detailed introduction to the Poetics and Politics Series, please read "Native Voices" by Andrew Peterson of the Tucson Weekly.