Reports from a Small Press Burnout: The Tucson Poetry Festival

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Tucson held its 35th annual Tucson Poetry Festival, sponsored by the University of Arizona. I didn’t go. In the 20 years I lived in Tucson, working mainly as a cab driver, I never went once. I was never invited, contacted or acknowledged, despite the fact that I was widely published. I wasn’t WAITING for my invitation, for a long time I didn’t even know about the damn festival, and…