Join the Henderson Bird Preserve and Nevada Humanities for a day of poetry and art in Henderson. This event is free and open to participants, ages 8 to adult. Registration is required.

9:30 - 10:00 am - Welcome to the Henderson Bird Preserve

Henderson Bird Preserve Staff/volunteer - welcome and introduction to the preserve and bird observation information. 

10 am - 11:30 am - Nature Poetry Workshop with Heather Lang-Cassera

Celebrate birds as we write in a beautiful and encouraging environment. This workshop will explore poetic forms ranging from blackout poetry to ekphrasis, all steeped in the art of close looking. Flexible prompts, activities, and guidance will be provided. Poets of all levels will go home having written new poems in their own unique voices. 

Artist Bio:

Heather Lang-Cassera is a poet and ceramist. She served as the 2019-2021 Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate and a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She is author of Gathering Broken Light, winner of the 2022 NYC Big Book Award in Poetry—Social/Political. Heather teaches Creative Writing at Nevada State University and Handbuilding at Clay Arts Vegas. The narrative yet lyrical nature of her writing informs her sculptural work, while the surrealist juxtapositions of her visual art influence her poems.