Livestreamed & In-Person
from the G Three Bar Theater
Close out National Poetry Month with a poetic double feature. Join us for an evening of readings with Nevada Poet Laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier and Nevada Arts Council Literary Fellow Justin Evans.
How to Watch:
Livestream–Free, on the WFC Facebook or Member Portal, or Nevada Humanities’ Eventbrite
In-Person–Free
A 2016 inductee into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, Gailmarie Pahmeier has published three full-length works of poetry, The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, The House on Breakaheart Road, and Of Bone, Of Ash, Of Ordinary Saints: A Nevada Gospel (2020), as well as three chapbooks—short collections of poems with a unifying theme. She served as inaugural Reno Poet Laureate, 2015-2017. In September of 2021, the governor of Nevada, Steve Sisolak, appointed her Poet Laureate, State of Nevada. Now Emerita, Pahmeier taught creative writing and contemporary literature at the University Nevada, Reno, where she received the University Distinguished Teacher Award and the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award, among other distinctions. She holds a bachelor’s degree in creative writing from Southern Illinois University and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Arkansas.
Justin Evans was born and raised in Utah. After high school, he joined the U.S. Army, serving from 1988 to 1992, including being stationed in Texas, Germany, Operation Desert Storm, and North Carolina. After, he returned to Utah for his education where he earned a Baccalaureate in History and English Education from Southern Utah University. Soon after, he moved to West Wendover, Nevada, with his wife and sons, where he has taught history, English, honors Government, College Prep Writing, ACT Prep, and many other classes for the past 23 years. Shortly after beginning his teaching career, he earned a Master's Degree in Literacy Studies from the University of Nevada, Reno. Justin has published four chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry. His most recent books are Cross Country (2019), which he wrote with the poet Jeff Newberry, and All the Brilliant Ideas I've Ever Had (2020).
Other poetry events this week at our Poetry Partners sites featuring Natalie Diaz and Gailmarie Pahmeier:
Wed, Apr. 27, 6pm PDT
A virtual and in person evening of poetry and conversation entitled Love, Land, and Language: A Reading and Conversation with Natalie Diaz, Moderated by Gailmarie Pahmeier. Attend in person with Gailmarie Pahmeier at Great Basin College in Elko; join in at watch parties happening Ely, Winnemucca, Pahrump, and Henderson; or tune in online from wherever you call home. Advance registration with Nevada Humanities required.
Thu, Apr. 28, 5:30pm PDT
Join the Humanities Center at Great Basin College Book Club online to discuss Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz. Open to all readers who want to dive deep and discuss. You need not be a GBC student or employee to participate. All details and Zoom link at HC@GBC Book Club.
Natalie Diaz is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020 for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Lannan Literary Fellow, a United States Artists Ford Fellow, and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. Diaz is Director of the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and is the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
