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The noted poet Rita Dove once wrote that “poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.”Dove served as the United States Poet Laureate in…
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A few words with Heather Lang-Cassera, the county’s new poet laureate.
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Saul Williams is talented in so many areas, including music, acting, and poetry.At the invitation of the office of the poet laureate of Clark County,…
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A changing of the guard is about to occur in Southern Nevada - in the world of poetry.Bruce Isaacson is completing his two-year term as Clark County’s…
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Beginning in the 1950s and onward, Bob Kaufman was a shining light in what’s known as the San Francisco poetry renaissance. A documentary film, “And When…
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Michael McClure is a poet, and more.In the 1950s, McClure was a key figure in the San Francisco poetry renaissance and one of the original Beat…
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Poet Juan Felipe Herrera has said he “wants to fly with symbols and metaphors and see trees in the shape of flying saucers.”Herrera has been writing,…
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — The first Hispanic poet laureate of the United States is making a visit to Las Vegas for a free public reading at a new 250-seat…
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Clark County now has a poet-in-chief. The first. Officially he’s called a poet laureate.His name is Bruce Isaacson. This summer, Isaacson is presiding at…