The Guide

Heather Lang-Cassera is making Desert Companion proud. Our 2017 Best of the City choice for Local Writer or Poet, Lang-Cassera has since served as the Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate; a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Fellow; and has published her most recent collection of poetry, Gathering Broken Light. This reading at The Writer’s Block offers a chance to get acquainted with not only the author herself, but also her poetry, which centers the tragedy of American gun violence, inspired by the aftermath of the 1 October shooting.