Logan Phillips is a poet and cultural worker based in Tucson, Arizona. He was recently appointed Tucson Poet Laureate and the recipient of a 2026 Poet Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets.

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Author of the books RECKON (University of Arizona Press, 2026), Sonoran Strange (West End Press, 2015), as well as the ongoing NoVoGRAFíAS series, Phillips works to create new opportunities for the intersection of poetry and wider society.

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As a bilingual poet, performer, educator and DJ he tours his art throughout the US, Latin America, Europe and beyond. Phillips holds collaboration as a core creative practice and contributes to a wide range of performance, music, education, land-based and community-centered projects.

Born to a family of Irish-Slavic descent and raised in the Arizona / Sonora borderlands, Phillips lived in and around Mexico City 2006-2011, where he contributed to organizing and hosting the country’s first regular poetry slam series.

Also in 2007 Logan began playing house parties and mezcalería-speakeasies in Cuernavaca as DJ Dirtyverbs, specializing in cumbia and world music.

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Teaching and facilitating has been an important part of Phillips’ artistic practice since 2005. He has worked as a classroom teacher at the elementary, high school and university levels.

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Phillips served as Cofounder & Codirector of Spoken Futures, Inc. whose programs included the Tucson Youth Poetry Slam, 2010-2019, and currently works as a teaching artist with The University of Arizona Poetry Center and with schools across the United States.