Celebrate Northern Nevada Pride with Nevada Humanities and Landline Poetry on Humanities at Play!
Tune in to our livestream on Tuesday, September 3 at 6 pm PT to learn more about Landline Poetry and listen to original works of poetry by poets Max Stone, Gion Davis, Dani Putney, and Joe Nasta. Afterwards, stick around for poetry karaoke where participants and audience members can share poems they love.
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Photo courtesy of Max Stone
Max Stone is a trans and queer poet from Reno, Nevada. He played soccer at Queens College in New York City before returning to Reno to earn his MFA in poetry and BA in English with a minor in book arts from the University of Nevada, Reno. He is the creator and host of the monthly Landline Poetry Series in Reno. He is the author of two chapbooks: The Bisexual Lighting Makes Everyone Beautiful (Ghost City Press) and Temporary Preparations (Bottlecap Press). His work has appeared in & Change, Frozen Sea, fifth wheel press, Bender Zine, Night Coffee Lit, The Meadow, Sundress Publications, and elsewhere.
Photo courtesy of Dani Putney
Dani Putney is a queer, non-binary, mixed-race Filipinx, and neurodivergent writer originally from Sacramento, California. Their debut full-length collection, Salamat sa Intersectionality (Okay Donkey Press, 2021), was a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Poetry. Mix-Mix, their second full-length poetry collection, is forthcoming from Baobab Press. They received their Ph.D. in English from Oklahoma State University and live in Reno, Nevada.
Photo courtesy of Gion Davis
Gion Davis is a trans poet from Española, New Mexico where he grew up on a sheep ranch. His poetry has been featured in HAD, No Tokens, Sprung Formal, and others. His debut collection, Too Much (2022), was selected by Chen Chen for the 2021 Ghost Peach Press Prize. He has received the 2018 Best New Poets Award selected by Ocean Vuong and was shortlisted for the Peach Magazine Gold Prize selected by Morgan Parker. He graduated with his MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2019 and currently lives in Denver, Colorado.
Photo courtesy of Joe Nasta
Joe Nasta (he/ze) is a queer writer and artist in Seattle. Zir work has appeared in The Rumpus, Peach Mag, dream boy book club, and others. Joe is an associate editor at Hobart and has self published several books of poetry including I want you to feel ugly, too and agony: love pomes. He co-founded and was head curator at Stone Pacific Zine. Joe's debut book of short stories Halve It is forthcoming from Blue Forge Press.
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