By Staff of Nevada Humanities
At the end of January, the Western Folklife Center in Elko will host the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on January 28-February 2, 2019. Nevada Humanities has proudly supported the Gathering every year—now in its 35th season!
Read MoreBy Katharine Schweitzer
A culture of political debate and dissent, free and fair elections, and the peaceful transition of power are among the goals of contemporary American democracy. Contested elections and revolutionary fervor in other countries serve as a reminder that democratic self-governance is a challenging collective project.
Read MoreBy Ismael Santillanes
For the first five years in prison, nothing more closely describes my life as this: I existed. Nothing more. Then I met Gary, incarcerated by then for many years. One day, out for a walk around the prison yard, he pointed out someone whose eyes were lifeless.
By the Staff of Nevada Humanities
We wish you a joyous holiday season and look forward to sharing with you all the humanities have to offer from Reno to Las Vegas and every place in between.
Read MoreBy Daniel Gumbiner
Over the past several months, thanks to the generous support of Nevada Humanities, I have had the opportunity to visit several schools in Nevada to discuss my book, The Boatbuilder.
Read MoreBy Daria Peoples-Riley
Because people come to live in Las Vegas from all over the world, before the exchange of names or even general references to the scorching weather, we often ask, “Where are you from?”
Read MoreBy The Holland Project and Staff of Nevada Humanities
The Holland Project and KWNK 97.7FM, along with Nevada Humanities, have collaborated to bring you a retrospective on the September 2018 Nevada Humanities Literary Crawl, “Open a New World.”
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Wishing you and yours a most Happy Thanksgiving Day! Celebrate, give thanks, and seek out the humanities in the world around you.
Read MoreBy the Staff of Nevada Humanities
Giving Tuesday is coming up on November 27, and Nevada Humanities invites you to participate and help us meet our goal of $5,000.
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Do you know about the Nevada Humanities Salon Series? You are invited to join us at Sundance Books and Music in Reno on Friday, November 16 for our final Salon of 2018.
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This November we are pleased to welcome new members to our Board of Trustees. Nevada Humanities is governed by a volunteer Board of Trustees made up of leaders in the humanities and nonprofit entities from around the state.
Read MoreBy Patty Cafferata
Back in July, I had the opportunity to observe and participate as a historian in the Nevada Humanities Salon: The Poetry Movement. The event that evening yielded a standing room only crowd at the Levy Mansion (Sundance Books and Music in Reno) for the Salon discussion followed by an on-site dance performance.
Read MoreBy Joe Milan Jr.
We write to be loved, admired, or at the very least, taken seriously. However, Professor Doug Unger only promises to converse with us, his students, about how to be a writer in the world.
Read MoreBy Gregory Crosby
October is my favorite month, even if, growing up in Las Vegas, it didn’t feel remotely autumnal until Halloween, not coincidentally my favorite holiday (even if so many of my friends insisted on celebrating something called “Nevada Day”).
Read MoreBy Naseem Jamnia
When I decided to move to Reno to join my husband, who had just started his master’s program at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR), I wondered at the kind of literary community I would find here.
Read MoreBy Scott Dickensheets
It’s a quiet September Saturday, and I’m thinking hard about how fragile life, civilization, and everything really are. Not because something’s wrong, at least not in my immediate world, but rather because nothing seems wrong: the grandkids are squealing, the dogs are sleeping, several of the bills are paid.
Read MoreBy Elise Choi
This letter is one of the 2018 “Letters About Literature” winners for the state of Nevada.
Dear Victor Hugo,
My two sisters, I, and my parents are members who constitute our family. Although my parents are fully devoted to their daughters, maybe due to the principle of mathematics, only two children can receive full attention from two adults at same moment.
Read MoreBy Lindsay Wilson
The poet read this poem at Reno’s 150th birthday kick off in the City Center to a celebratory crowd that included the Mayor of Reno and City Council members.
By Cassandra D. Little, PhD, MSW
Growing up in the inner city of East Palo Alto, California and being surrounded by drugs, violence, and poverty, reading and writing offered me the opportunity to escape my reality and dream of a world that I wanted to live in.
Read MoreBy Pat Ferraro Klos
Pershing County: 100 Years was born out of a neighborhood in Lovelock, Nevada, where four friends lived — where four generations of their families met, gathered, talked, and told stories based on the history of that part of northern Nevada.
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