National Poetry Series award recipient Barbara Cully to

The UA Poetry Center continues its poetry reading series today with a reading from nationally renowned local poet Barbara Cully.

Cully, a University of Arizona lecturer who teaches composition and creative writing, will be reading poems from her new work, "Desire Reclining."

"Desire Reclining" is a series of prose poem meditations. Each poem is comprised of between four and nine sections united by the poem's title," Cully stated in an e-mail interview. "The poems in the book speak to each other by way of their voices, subjects, imagery and lyrical progressions.

"My poems, especially my most recent poems, meditate while they conduct lyrical inquiries into their various subjects," Cully added. "What I hope is engaging about them is their use of language and visuals, their thought process, and their voices."