The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026
Time: 4-6 p.m., MST
Place:
Reservations: Free and open to the public, RSVP here.
Tucson Poet Laureate Logan Phillips, author of Reckon, will host Poets in the Park, the official kickoff of the ¡Somos Uno! series on Saturday, October 10. This series will celebrate the work of 21 local poets and organize poetry events across Tucson. The event will be hosted at Armory Park. Food and music will be provided. This event is free and open to the public and the form to RSVP for this event can be found here.
Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in 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?
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
