Join us for this generative writing workshop, where we will look at poetry and prose generated through various national poetry in the parks programs and give you an opportunity to explore ways to write your own poem or create art and poetry postcards in celebration of the Clark County Wetlands Park.

Participants will receive a Clark County Poet Laureate writing kit and have the opportunity to create postcards as part of the Nevada P.S. I Love You Postcard Project: Love Notes from Across the Silver State. Digital access to Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada, edited by Kathleen Kuo and Scott Dickensheets, is provided on the Nevada Humanities website.

Additional information:

• This workshop gives writers the option to participate in a brief nature writing exercise that can be done outside or from one of the many beautiful seating areas in the Wetlands Visitor Center; we recognize that attendees may have varying degrees of comfort in group settings. Masks are optional but very welcome.

• Restrooms will be available in the park visitors center.

• Parking is free.

• Please be aware of Clark County Wetlands Park rules.

Since 2021, Nevada Humanities has provided over 2,000 physical and digital copies of Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada across the state, including more than 200 copies that have been distributed by Clark County Poet Laureate Angela M. Brommel as part of her Poetry in the Parks project. Part nature guide, part poetry book, and part workbook, the 100-page guide is composed of poems by writers from around the state paired with art depicting Nevada’s natural beauty, as well as creative prompts accompanied by scientific text to inspire more active and reflective engagement with the world around us.

Sagebrush to Sandstone: A Humanities Guide to Outdoor Nevada Publication and Literary Walking Tours has been made possible in part by funding from the Library of Congress.

Angela M. Brommel is the 2022-2024 Clark County Poet Laureate. Her project centers on poetry for resilience with a special focus on poetry in the parks and interdisciplinary arts conversations and collaborations.

Brommel is the author of two books, Mojave in July (Tolsun Books) and Plutonium & Platinum Blonde (Serving House Books). Her poetry has been published in the North American Review, The Best American Poetry blog, and many other journals and anthologies. In 2018 she was a Red Rock Canyon Artist in Residence, serving as the inaugural poet of the program. She serves as  Editor-in-Chief and Poetry Editor for The Citron Review.

At Nevada State University, she serves as Senior Advisor & Executive Director for the Arts within the Office of the Provost and Office for the Arts, as affiliate faculty within the School of Liberal Arts, Sciences & Business, as well as serving as Visiting Professor for the Arts at the University of Derby. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, an MA in Theatre from the University of Northern Iowa, and a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from UNLV.

Emily Hoover is the author of the poetry chapbook, My Mother as a Serrano Pepper (Zeitgeist Press, 2023). Her poetry, fiction, and reviews have been published by Sundress Publications, Maudlin House, Cleaver Magazine, The Citron Review, BULL, Necessary Fiction, Ploughshares blog, The Rupture, and others. Her creative works have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the 'Net Anthology, Best Small Fictions Anthology, and Best Microfiction Anthology. She is a Lecturer of English at Nevada State University and a Priority Editor for Flash Fiction Magazine. Find her on Instagram as @em1lywho.

Anne Hoff’s artist statement:

Since my undergraduate years, I have been seduced by the tactile quality and technical mystery of the traditional print. This love of surface and process are what pulls me toward the traditional stone lithograph, etching , photo-film processes and hybrid combinations.

My principle images come from self-narrative, events and ideas that affect my life and my view of self. With the passage of my time spent in Nevada, I have become obsessively compelled to the tactile and beautiful landscapes and surfaces of its natural places. Sculptural stone, stunning vistas and achingly isolated and pristine locals make their way into my images. I work to bring the seductive sense of the hidden places to my images, through the use of complex line and sculptural form.

I wish the viewer to share the dizzying, overwhelming sense of visual immensity, the clarity of air, the tactile sharpness of stone, the visual song of fluidity in the lines of the landscape. I still feel I come up short.

Currently, I am the professor of Printmaking and Drawing at the College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV. My work is in several university, museum and corporate collections. I have enjoyed showing my work locally and nationally.