Forrest Gander

Sierra Poetry Festival: Forrest Gander, Danusha Laméris, Amy Gerstler, more

30 APRIL 2022 — saturday

Nevada County Arts Council presents the 6th Annual Sierra Poetry Festival, a day of poetry readings and performances featuring readings and talks by Pulitzer Prize-winner Forrest Gander, Twice Alive; Danusha Laméris, Bonfire Opera, winner of the Northern California Book Award for Poetry, National Book Critics Circle-winner Amy Gerstler, Index of Women; Dana Gioia in conversation with Cynthia L. Haven, author of Czeslaw Milosz: A California Life, her biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet; Doc Dachtler; Nevada County Poet Laureate Kirsten Casey; Shangyang Fang; Mark Tredinnick; Poetry Out Loud Student Champions and Finalists, lunch-time open reading, Poetry Place bookfair (Poetry Flash will exhibit), hybrid in-person and online, Miners Foundry Cultural Center, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City, free, 9:00 am-5:00 pm PDT (More information here: www.sierrapoetryfestival.org)