The Tucson Poetry Festival, co-founded by UAgrad and poet Karen Falkenstrom, is another draw. Performances at this year's March event included Nobel Prize-winners in poetry Czeslaw Milocz and Derek Walcott. Even local radio and TV carry of poetry. KXCI-FM, 91.3, features Wordworks from 10 p.m. to midnight on Thursdays. Sun Sounds Reading Thru Radio also has a poetry show at noon Sundays on Tucson CableVision channels 54 and 62.
Poetry is the epitome of that.
It's about compression, it's about words carefully chosen, it's about inspiration. And Tucson, it seems, is an inspiration for poets.