Poetry Promise, Inc.

Join us Saturday 10/12 at 2pm via Zoom & in person for a FREE Reading & Discussion with Rubén Medina! To attend in-person, simply show up at Wi******er Dondero Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89121. To attend via Zoom, email [email protected] for the link. This event is made possible with support from Nevada Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Clark County Public Arts-Clark County, Nevada.

Rubén Medina was born in Mexico, D.F. He is a poet, translator, scholar, and one of the founders of Infrarealism, the poetry movement popularized as Visceral Realism in the bestselling poetry novel of Roberto Bolaño. He was the character Rafael Barrios in the best-selling poetry novel The Savage Detectives. He published a study of the work of Nobel Prize winner Octavio Paz and translations of the Beat poets. Rubén Medina has lived in the United States since 1978 and is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. He writes in English, Spanish, and Spanglish.

¡Únase con nosotros sábado 10/12 a las 2 pm a través de Zoom y en persona para una lectura y discusión GRATUITA con Rubén Medina! Para asistir en persona, simplemente preséntese en Wi******er Dondero Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Dr., Las Vegas, NV 89121. Para asistir a través de Zoom, envíe un correo electrónico a [email protected]. Este evento es posible gracias al apoyo de Nevada Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities y Clark County Public Arts-Clark County, Nevada.

Rubén Medina nació en México, D.F. Es poeta, traductor, académico y uno de los fundadores del Infrarrealismo, el movimiento poético popularizado como Realismo Visceral en la exitosa novela poética de Roberto Bolaño, Los detectives salvajes. Publicó un estudio sobre la obra del Premio Nobel Octavio Paz y traducciones de los poetas “beat.” Rubén Medina vive en Estados Unidos desde 1978 y es profesor de la Universidad de Wisconsin. Escribe en inglés, español y spanglish.

Join us this Saturday 09/28 at 2pm via Zoom for a FREE Book Party & Reading featuring Richard Loranger! He will read from his recent book Mammal and Unit of Agency - followed by an open reading. Please email for the Zoom link! This event is made possible with support from Nevada Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Clark County, Nevada.

Richard Loranger is a multi-genre writer, performer, voice artist, and text artist who has been working around the United States for over forty years. His work has been included in over one hundred magazines and journals and thirty anthologies. He has done over 500 featured readings and also been a member of several music and performance groups. He has lived across the country, including New York, Austin, Boulder, Ann Arbor, Chicago, and San Francisco, and currently lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Join us this Saturday at 2pm via Zoom and in person for a FREE Book Party & Reading featuring Sandra Anfang! We will celebrate the release of her new book Rara Avis: for the birds - followed by an open reading. Please email for the Zoom link or just show up at Wi******er Cultural Center! This event is made possible with support from Nevada Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Clark County.

Sandra Anfang is a poet, teacher, and visual artist. She was nominated for a Best Short Fiction award, Best of the Net, and a Pushcart Prize. She is founder of the monthly series Rivertown Poets, in Petaluma, CA, and a California Poet/Teacher in the Schools. To write, for her, is to breathe.

This Saturday!
Zoom poetry ready and discussion.

Aug. 10, discussion of innovation of poetic consciousness pioneered by Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, and collaborators.

Please register by emailing Bruce Isaacson
[email protected]

Our weekly workshop events are sponsored by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Thank you!

We are honored to be named Best Grassroots Spoken Word Organization by Desert Companion in the Best of the City 2024! 💙
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Still a trace of night breeze in the morning mountain air.

Get your FREE ticket! Friends and followers of Poetry Promise can attend a poetry workshop and other fun activities at The Neon Museum STEAM Saturdays, this Sat. June 22, 2024, 9:30-11:30am. FREE Ticket Discount Code: PoetrySTEAM at https://neonmuseum.org/whats-on/fy24-steam-saturdays/

Lights, Camera, Action! Come to the Neon Boneyard and learn about animation and the science behind lights, film, and stop motion! Learn about animated signs in The Neon Museum collection, create flipbooks and thaumatropes, and make your own stop-motion animated movie!

Free poetry workshops are hosted by Nevada Poets in the Schools, a Poetry Promise, Inc. program supported by public funding. STEAM Saturdays is sponsored by Meow Wolf, Cox Charities, and the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the state of Nevada.

Join host Bruce Isaacson every Saturday for a poetry reading & discussion starting at 2:00p • pst weekly

Sometimes in-person, sometimes on zoom & sometimes both!

To register for this free event,
please email the host directly at:
[email protected]

This program is sponsored in part by Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment of the Arts.

Sunrise on the Red Rock Loop.

Tonight at 7:00 PM! Free admission! W. Charleston Library, Las Vegas!

And… a special focus on the poetry of Ada Limon this Saturday 2pm. Email [email protected] for the link. Hope to see you at Poetry!

John Oliver Simon Award Winners and Reading ✨
Poetry Promise, Inc. is proud to announce the winners of the John Oliver Simon award, a leading prize for excellent poetry by a full-time student.

The John Oliver Simon Award is judged ‘in-the-blind’ by the Clark County Poet Laureate and the Poetry Promise Board of Directors.

This year’s reading will take place on Saturday, May 18th, 2024, from 2:00pm – 3:30pm at the Wi******er Cultural Center Multipurpose Room. Admission is free and open to the public.

This year’s winners are…
1st place: Asa Baker, Nevada State University
2nd place: Blu Mehari, Bennington College
Runner-up: Bobby Morris, Nevada State University

Our winners will be joined by a small selection of Nevada Poets. An open reading will follow the featured poets.

Event Details:
• Date: Saturday, May 18th, 2024
• Time: 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Pacific Daylight Time
• Location: Wi******er Cultural Center, 3130 McLeod Dr, Las Vegas, NV 89121
• A Zoom link is available. For those who prefer to join that way, please email [email protected].
• Admission: Free and open to the public

This scholarship was initiated by Bruce Isaacson, first Poet Laureate of Clark County, Nevada. Angela Brommel, the current Clark County Poet Laureate, has supported the program and helped choose the winning manuscripts.

The name of the award was changed to honor the memory of John Oliver Simon, one of the Bay Area’s most beloved poets, who passed away in January 2018. John Simon worked many years to advance the California Poets in the Schools program and inspired the Nevada Poets in the Schools program.

Thanks for the support of Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities, without whose generous contribution this and other Poetry Promise programs would not be possible.

Thanks to Community Learning Project for supporting our workshops for Nevada Reading Week and Neon Museum! 💜

The Poetry Hub ✨
Wednesday, April 17 6:30pm - 7:30pm
📍 West Charleston Library
6301 W Charleston Blvd, Las Vegas, NV 89146

Hosted by Poetry Promise, this fun and interactive Poetry Hub is a place for self-expression, where you can share your experiences through writing and poetry in a fun, encouraging environment.

Poetry Promise provides educational programs, public readings, poetry awards, poetry contests, book publishing, writing workshops and other related programs and services that advance the cause of literature, poetry and the arts.

Free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis and may be limited. For more information, please call 702.507.3964.

We're so proud to be selected and to carry on this important work! Thank you NEA and Nevada GrantLab. This grant sponsors our exciting Power of Poetry event on April 12, 6pm @ WLV Library, FREE with Eventbrite registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-power-of-poetry-tickets-854067608207

Poetry Promise, Inc. secured a $10,000 U.S. National Endowment for the Arts grant! CONGRATS! The Power of Poetry, a captivating series of live stage performances, is set to empower underserved communities through the beauty of literary arts.

This Saturday on Zoom! 💻
Please join Poet Laureate Emeritus Bruce Isaacson on Sat, March 30, 2024 for a Zoom! reading & discussion on Jack Hirschman, 1933-2021.

A committed communist, anti-fascist, and community activist, who began as a tenure-track professor at Dartmouth and UCLA. He was fired for giving students grades for the purpose of avoiding the Vietnam draft. Jack was also one of America’s foremost translators of poetry, including the first English Artaud Anthology (City Lights), Pier Paolo Pasolini, and others. His poems include a fair amount of what might be called agit-prop which can challenge modern readers.

“Arcane” was merely what Jack named his longer poems, one excellent of which, The Satin Arcane, was first published on Zeitgeist and has recently been reissued. I believe Jack’s achievement in The Arcanes and other poems have not yet been assimilated by American poetry, yet will be. Among the agit-prop, historical verse, translations, and poignant views of the underclass, Jack was also a great personal poet.

Please register by email at [email protected]

This program is sponsored in part by &

In honor of National Poetry Month Poetry Promise Inc. with Clark County Poet Laureate present the Power of Poetry on Friday April 12, 2024 at the West Las Vegas Library Theater 6 pm-9:30 pm PST. The Power of Poetry event is FREE and open to the public.

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This Saturday we will have a Zoom Reading and Discussion with featured Author David Duncan from his new book Paper Fortune Teller.

Those of you who join on Saturdays know David Duncan has been writing some really strong poems. They’re frequently funny, but never only that. They reach out through the ones we’ve known and loved with intuitive recognition. The poems are always clever, often poignant, and also filled with joy. Joy at living and being the sometimes twisted, imperfect creatures that we be.

An open reading will follow the feature.

This program is sponsored in part by Nevada humanities and the national endowment of the arts .