Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz and Nevada's Poet Laureate Gailmarie Pahmeier.
Attend in-person with Gailmarie Pahmeier at Great Basin College in Elko; join in at watch parties happening in Ely, Winnemucca, Pahrump, and Henderson; or tune in online from wherever you call home. Registration is required.
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.
A 2016 inductee in 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, as well as three chapbooks — short collections of poems with a unifying theme. Her work has been included in literary journals Booth, Spillway and Descant, among others. She served as Reno Poet Laureate in 2015. Pahmeier is Emeritus Faculty at the University Nevada, Reno, where she received the University Distinguished Teacher Award in 1995 and the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award in 1994, 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. Pahmeier is currently the Nevada Poet Laureate.
Additional Events:
An Evening of Poetry with Gailmarie Pahmeier and Justin Evans
April 26, 6 pm PDT, Live in Elko and Online
The HC@gbc Book Club: Postcolonial Love Poem
April 28, 5:30 pm PDT, Online
All events are free and open to the public.
