Por Genevy Machuca
Hola a todos, mi nombre es Genevy Machuca y estoy encantada de compartirles el emocionante inicio de mi viaje de pasantía con Nevada Humanities. Como estudiante de primer año en la Universidad de Nevada, Reno, estudiando dos carreras, una en periodismo televisivo y la otra en español, mi camino hacia esta increíble oportunidad comenzó con una pasión por la poesía y hablar en público.
Read MoreBy Emilee Wirshing
you may have noticed something missing,
an inventory of your guest rooms will tell you
someone kept a souvenir
and while your kind,
no-questions-asked policy
of covering the shipping
on the bronze stamped diamond tags
is often an invitation to return them…
my grandfather had no intention
of giving back your keys;
By JM Huck
Ekphrasis is creative writing inspired by artwork. There are many entry points to this type of writing; I wrote about a few of them in a recent Ekphrastic Writing Challenge. It took three visits before I could write this ekphrastic poem on one of the artworks at the Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum in Las Vegas.
By Shaun T. Griffin
Floating the Yangtze Shallows, Still as Rice—
one oar tipping the water to shore,
and Wang Wei lays a reed across the bow
like the heron, quiet overhead.
No thing can stop such flight—the poet
in his boat—a single tremor
on the water. This is how the smoke
By Morgan Jerkins
When I got the email that my second book, Wandering in Strange Lands, was a read for the Nevada Humanities’ Nevada Reads program, I was delighted. I hadn’t been to Nevada in over five years since The Believer Festival in 2018 ,and I’d been thinking of this special desert ever since.
Read MoreBy Melanie Perish
Over the Virginia Range In Reno we listen, see the news where
the sun slips up the wide sky buildings dangle stoves
humbled by last night’s pink moon and Russian soldiers
By Christina Barr
When the members of the Nevada Humanities Board of Trustees and our staff gather together we often begin our meetings with a round robin of people sharing their most recent humanities moments. Everyone talks about humanities programs they have attended; books, movies, holidays, and celebrations laden with cultural significance; journeys they have taken to explore new cultures; family history projects; and much more.
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