POG Poetry: Lytle Shaw & Raquel Gutiérrez

Poetry Reading by Lytle Shaw & Raquel Gutiérrez, presented by POG: Poetry in Action. Please Register at pogartstucson.org/tickets-events

Free, but we request a $5 donation, $3 from students. Light refreshment served. POG is a nonprofit organization, and our events are supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Poets & Writers, as well as our many patrons, sponsors, and donors.

Lytle Shaw is a New York-based writer and critic whose books include Frank O’Hara: the Poetics of Coterie, The Moiré Effect, Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research, and New Grounds for Dutch Landscape. He is a contributing editor for Cabinet Magazine and a professor of English at New York University.

Raquel Gutiérrez is an arts critic/writer, poet and educator. Born and raised in Los Angeles Gutiérrez credits the queer and feminist DIY post-punk 'zine culture of the 1990s plus Los Angeles County and Getty paid arts internships with introducing her/them to the various vibrant art & music scenes and communities throughout Southern California. Gutiérrez is a 2021 recipient of the Rabkin Prize in Arts Journalism, as well as a 2017 recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Her/Their writing has recently appeared in or is forthcoming in Art In America, NPR Music, Places Journal, and The Georgia Review. Gutiérrez teaches in the Oregon State University-Cascades Low Residency Creative Writing MFA Program. Her/Their first book of prose, “Brown Neon,” is an ekphrastic memoir that considers what it means to be a Latinx artist during the Trump era and will be published by Coffee House Press, June, 2022. Gutiérrez calls Tucson, Arizona home.