Throughout the year, the Poetry Center offers non-credit creative writing workshops as well as classes and seminars on poetry and prose. "Shop Talk" discussion groups offer mini-lectures on featured poets, followed by a conversation on the poet's work. The "Closer Look Book Club" provides an opportunity for in-depth conversation about prose literature. The Poetry Center also provides support to the Arizona State Prison Creative Writing Workshops founded by University of Arizona Regents' Professor Richard Shelton and supported by a grant from the Lannan Foundation. Inmates attend weekly workshops, write, edit and submit work to a dedicated journal, "Rain Shadow", which is available at the Poetry Center.