Event Category: Reading & Signing

Logan Phillips at Stacks Book Club in Oro Valley, AZ

Date: Friday, September 4, 2026

Time: 6:30-8:00 p.m., MST

Place: Stacks Book Club, Oro Valley, AZ

Logan Phillips, Tucson Poet Laureate and author of Reckon, will lead a discussion about his book at Stacks Book Club in Oro Valley, Arizona. The event is free, but please RSVP here.

Phillips’ hybrid memoir includes a mix of literary forms (poetry, essay, screenplay and more) as well as design elements such as collage, visual sampling of archival material, newspapers, typography and original photography. Written using design software (Adobe InDesign) rather than standard word processing software, Reckon is part of an artistic legacy of books that transgress genre by mixing media. A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

In Reckon, artist Logan Phillips returns to the fabled town to face the history he was raised on as a boy—gunfights, outlaws, and Hollywood cowboys—for a new, personal confrontation with the West’s foundational mythology. This hybrid memoir also explores sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and what it means to love a land rife with contradiction and “slathered in murder.”

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past—including Youngfather and Teenme—Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight—a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments—where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios.

Logan Phillips at Brickbat Books in Philadelphia

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Time: 6-8 p.m., EDT

Where: Brickbat Books, 709 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA

Logan Phillips, author of Reckon, will read at a Brickbat Books in Philadelphia on April 29 with poet Stan Mir. The event is free and open to the public. Logan Phillips is Poet Laureate for Tucson, Arizona (traditional lands of the Tohono O’odham). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios.

MALCS 2026 Summer Institute

When: July 15-18, 2026

Where: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Join us in Minneapolis for the 2026 MALCS Summer Institute! The theme this year is “Movements along Bdote: Disruption and Solidarity Sin Fronteras.” Learn more at the MALCS website.

About the MALCS Summer Institute:

“Through the 2026 Summer Institute, MALCS welcomes proposals that create a space where we can learn collectively from Bdote, the movement of water and earth, our Indigenous and more-than-human relatives, and each other, to uplift struggles for freedom and planetary life. We seek to resist settler colonial borders and structures that inflict harm, including the harm of being torn from land, or destierro, as theorized by Yomaira Figueroa. We also listen to Indigenous Wayuu scholar Jose Quintero Weir’s call for hacertopías. Unlike utopia (the “no” place), hacertopía is an agentic collective and cultural place-making in relational buen (con)vivir with other saberes. Hacertopías reconfigure power as a communal force with affective investments to place in order to create and cultivate, instead of control and dominance.”

Botany Conference 2026

When: August 1-5, 2026

Where: JW Marriott Tucson Star Pass, Tucson, AZ

Join us in Tucson for the 2026 Botany Conference! Learn more about at the Botany Conference website.

About the Botany Conference:

“This annual meeting of six leading professional botanical societies (the American Bryological and Lichenological Society, the American Fern Society, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the International Society of Plant Taxonomy, the Society for Herbarium Curators, and the Botanical Society of America) brings together a diverse mix of researchers, professors, educators, government employees and motivated graduate and undergraduate students, all focused on what’s new in the botanical sciences.

For Botany 2026 we return to one of our highest rated locations, Tucson, Arizona. We anticipate over 1000 participants from around the world to present over 700 scientific contributions including special symposia, papers, posters, and special lectures. A full slate of field trips and scientific and educational workshops will round out the program.”

Logan Phillips Featured at Fruity Poetry Night in Phoenix

Date: Friday, April 17, 2026

Time: Doors open at 5:30 p.m., show begins at 6 p.m., MST

Place: The McKinley Club Yard, 2811 N 7th Ave, Phoenix, AZ

Logan Phillips author of Reckon is the featured poet at Fruity Poetry Night at The McKinley Club Yard in Phoenix on April 17. Hosted by artists-in-residence Patrick De Leon and Lan Lesmeister, this very special open-mic is for queer poets, writers, and storytellers from across Arizona. Sign up must be in person with performer present. The event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by thems.

Logan Phillips is the Tucson Poet Laureate and a cultural worker based in Tucson (traditional lands of the Tohono O’odham). He is author of Sonoran Strange, alongside numerous poetry chapbooks and art books, including the NoVoGRAFíAS series (2009–present). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

Logan Phillips at Wave Archive in Tucson

Date: Friday, April 10, 2026

Time: 7-9 p.m., MST

Place: Wave Archive, 197 E. Toole, Tucson, AZ

Logan Phillips, author of Reckon, will join Jennifer Scappettone at a Wave Archive event with POG Arts on April 10, 2026; the event is also sponsored by the University of Arizona Poetry Center. This event has free entry, but donations are welcome.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

Kimberly Blaeser at National Book Foundation Event in Madison, WI

Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026

Time: 7 p.m., CDT

Place: Madison Public Library – Central, 201 West Mifflin Street, Madison, WI

Kimberly Blaeser, author of Ancient Light, a National Book Foundation Science + Literature selected title, will read at the Madison Public Library. Blaeser collects poems that trace the many crises Indigenous communities navigate—from centuries of violence to the COVID-19 pandemic—alongside the ancestral knowledge that allows for a reclamation of language, of land, and of healing. Blaeser is a former Wisconsin Poet Laureate and founding director of In-Na-Po, Indigenous Nations Poets. Blaeser will join Sean Hill at the National Book Foundation’s event, “Science + Literature: The Science of Hope.” This event is free and open to the public, and registration can be found here.

About the book:

With vision and resilience, Kimberly Blaeser’s poetry layers together past, present, and futures. Against a backdrop of pandemic loss and injustice, MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), hidden graves at Native American boarding schools, and destructive environmental practices, Blaeser’s innovative poems trace pathways of kinship, healing, and renewal. They celebrate the solace of natural spaces through sense-laden geo-poetry and picto-poems. With an Anishinaabe sensibility, her words and images invoke an ancient belonging and voice the deep relatedness she experiences in her familiar watery regions of Minnesota.

Logan Phillips Reads at Bookworks in Albuquerque, NM

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026

Time: 6 p.m., MST

Place: Bookworks, 4022 Rio Grande Blvd NW, Albuquerque, NM

Logan Phillips will read and speak about his new book, Reckon, at Bookworks in Albuquerque. Phillips will be in conversation with local poet Hakim Bellamy. The event is free and open to the public. Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in Tucson (traditional lands of the Tohono O’odham). He is author of Sonoran Strange, alongside numerous poetry chapbooks and art books, including the NoVoGRAFíAS series (2009–present). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

Logan Phillips at Tri-National Symposium in Ajo, AZ

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Time: 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Place: Curley School Auditorium, 55 Orilla Ave, Ajo, AZ

Logan Phillips will read and speak about his new book, Reckon, at the Tri-National Symposium in Ajo, Arizona. Organized by representatives from the Tohono O’odham Nation, Mexico and the United States, this biennial symposium on March 9-12, offers presentations and dialogue about the dynamics of natural and cultural ecology, environmental challenges, and their relationships to peoples–past and present–living in the Sonoran Desert. Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in Tucson (traditional lands of the Tohono O’odham). He is author of Sonoran Strange, alongside numerous poetry chapbooks and art books, including the NoVoGRAFíAS series (2009–present). A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects.

Tickets for the Symposium are $44.50 and available here.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

Logan Phillips at Cochise College in Douglas & Sierra Vista, AZ

Date: Thursday, February 19, 2026

Times and Places:

9:15-10:15 a.m. Reading and Author Talk at Cochise College, Douglas Campus Union, 4190 West Highway 80, Community Room 502

3-4 p.m. Multimedia and Poetry Craft Talk at Cochise College, Sierra Vista Campus Union, 901 N. Colombo Ave

Logan Phillips, author of Reckon, will read from his new book and lead a craft talk on two Cochise College Campuses. How can a writer engage images? How can a visual artist leverage writing? Phillips’ hybrid memoir includes a mix of literary forms (poetry, essay, screenplay and more) as well as design elements such as collage, visual sampling of archival material, newspapers, typography and original photography. Written using design software (Adobe InDesign) rather than standard word processing software, Reckon is part of an artistic legacy of books that transgress genre by mixing media. A seasoned performer and collaborator, Phillips has toured his work internationally, working on a wide range of arts, education, and land-based projects. The events are free and open to the public; please RSVP here.

About the book:

What’s it like to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona?

As innovative as it is moving, this memoir is constructed of essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings from the Tombstone Epitaph Local Edition, and of course, movie screenplays. As he writes the characters of his past––including Youngfather and Teenme––Phillips finds the real history to be much more complex than the stories he was told. This is Tombstone in the 1980s and 90s, a century after the West’s most famous gunfight––a fifteen-second event still performed every day in historical reenactments––where Phillips’s father works as a historical exhibit designer at the Courthouse Museum and his uncle as a stuntman at Old Tucson Studios

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