Sara Sams

UPCOMING EVENTS

FEB 17, 2026: Sara will be reading a poem for the Arizona Science Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Lise-Marie Imbert-Gérard (“Harnessing the Power of Stars: Shaping the Future of Energy with Fusion Science”). 7:00 PM, Centennial Hall; free ticket required to reserve spot.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

4/22/2025: THE IMAGINARY PRESENT: The University of Arizona English Department presented new work by poet & scholar, Professor Amy Catanzano. After sharing work from her new book, The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics, Professor Catanzano joined interdisciplinary thinkers– poet Dr. Susan Briante, astronomer Dr. Kevin Hainline, and PhD candidate in Physics, Maria Mutz, to discuss questions about language, theoretical frameworks, research methodologies, gamifying physics, and more.

4/19 /2025: TUCSON POETRY FESTIVAL WORKSHOP: “Poetry Collider: A Workshop” guides participants in learning how concepts from the discipline of particle physics, as discovered in the past century, can lead us to a deeper understanding of our perceptive faculties— and of the poems we most need to write. 

4/19/2025: TUCSON POETRY FESTIVAL READING: Sara performed poems from Atom City and from a new manuscript, Real Interior.

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The Atom City book launch, featuring Sh!t theatre.

9/23/2021 reading for Book Soup in conversation with Susan Nguyen
9/10/2021 Weller Book Works with Susan Nguyen & Bo Schwabacher. 
10/2019: Opening Reader for *The* Charles Simic at Phoenix Art Museum
7/2019: Featured Reader at the University of Kent, Canterbury, England
2/2018: “Can’t Escape the way You’re Holding on: Grieving as a Novice Metalhead,” presented at Southwest Popular/American Culture Association in Albuquerque, NM
02/18/2016: Read w/Afghan Women’s Writing Project at Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference
10/8/2015: Sara performed poems in Out of Silence: Poems From the Afghan Women’s Writing Project
1/2014: Featured Reader at Edge Reading Series, Tucson, AZ. Photo via T.C. Tolbert
12/11/2013: Reading @ MiXer series in NYC
At Stjukshon & Friends in Tucson. Thanks to the other artists and to Charlotte at the Bailey House for an amazing night!
11/1/2013: Performed original poems in “The Art of Friendship” at the Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: “B.A., 1929,” Xul Solar