About us

Thin Air works to elevate and bring together the Flagstaff community. Catch us at any of our events!

Upcoming events:

Cinder Skies Presents: A High Desert Reading Series

  • Thursdays @7 PM
  • Follow @cinderskies_readings for info
  • Local venues in Flagstaff
More info

Silly Goose Writing Club

  • 5-6:30pm on March 31st 2026
  • Willow Bend Environmental Education Center: 703 E. Sawmill Road, Flagstaff, AZ 86001
  • No experience necessary!
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News & updates:

  • Lovingly Grateful: An Interview with Ross Gay; Interview conducted by Laine Derr

    Recipient of the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015), Ross Gay shapes language, roots fused with variegated ash, to chronicle experiences, the profane crafted sacred through simple gestures of doing and undoing, buttoning and unbuttoning, while resisting the need to dissect his artistry with “an X-Acto knife.”  When asked what…

  • A Gesture of Love: An Interview with Carl Phillips; Interview conducted by Laine Derr

    I was honored when Carl Phillips, Department of English at Washington University in St. Louis, agreed to an interview. He is a prolific author whose most recent collection Reconnaissance (2015) continues to establish him as a leading poetic voice. When asked what advice he would give to someone new to writing, Phillips succinctly responded, “Read…