This is Black Mountain Institute Conversations, an interview series produced by Nevada Public Radio’s Desert Companion in collaboration with the Black Mountain Institute. For this series, we sit down with BMI’s Fellows to talk about the writing that brought them here and how they’re spending their short time in Las Vegas.
Joining us today is the Black Mountain Institute’s very first Kluge Fellow. That’s a virtual fellowship that supports an author’s creative process in Washington DC, as they plumb the Library of Congress’ collection for texts useful to their own writing.
The recipient of this fellowship is Saretta Morgan. She’s the author of two poetry chapbooks and a poetry book, titled Alt-Nature, published by Coffee House Press in early 2024. The book is a collection of love letters to American ecosystems and geological safe spaces. But, in the same breath, it’s also a dismantling of the ideology that damages and distances people from those same natural places.
Saretta's Events:
Nature is What We Come To in the Practice of Remembering
Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve Poetry Workshop
