01/06
Writer Rosemarie Dombrowski
214 W McKinley Street
Cities aren’t only built. They’re written, remembered, and reinterpreted by the people who live in them.
Phoenix’s inaugural Poet Laureate, an educator, editor, and medical humanist who has spent more than two decades bringing poetry off the page and into the community. She founded rinky dink press and the poetic-medicine nonprofit Revisionary Arts.
As an ASU professor based downtown, she has helped cultivate generations of writers and built community-facing literary programming that runs straight through Roosevelt Row, including First Friday poetry events.
