By Todd Gilens
I am a writer and visual artist working with ecological themes. For several years, I helped researchers survey streams and meadows in the Sierra Nevada backcountry, and wondered how the dedication and insights of scientific inquiry could translate into everyday situations in the places we live.
By Deon Reynolds
This image was created while my wife Trish and I were participating in the Darwin Lambert Artists in Residence Program at Great Basin National Park in 2007. We started our day hiking the Baker Creek/Grey Cliffs trail, and it was a gray, dull overcast day, great for hiking but not the kind of light I was looking for photographically. Hiking along the trail we stopped at a clearing, looking up towards the weather happening on a totally obscured Wheeler Peak.
By Meredith Oda
Eighty-one years ago, on February 19, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This action resulted in the incarceration over 120,000 Japanese Americans in desolate camps throughout the interior of the United States for most of WWII. Two thirds of these Japanese Americans were US-born citizens; one third were migrants prevented from naturalizing as citizens. This was the biggest infringement of civil liberties in our country’s history, and it rested on the false justification of military necessity.
By Matt Malinowski
The old wooden floor creaks beneath my feet as I slowly move down the hallway of a stranger’s home. The house is warm, with a lingering smell of cigarette smoke, and the afternoon light is fading through its thin windows. I feel like an intruding time traveler, though I have been invited to enter. I arrive at the kitchen, and she stares blankly into the distance from behind the acrylic panel that separates her world and mine.
By Kathleen Kuo
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head? I, and many of you I am sure, have experienced this phenomenon in varying degrees; some mornings I wake up with a fragment of a song that might linger with me throughout the day before eventually fading. And then there are other instances where a song might play on loop for days and days, attempts to banish it notwithstanding.
By Staff of Nevada Humanities
Once again, The Western Folklife Center in Elko keeps traditions alive and will host the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering on January 30 - February 4, 2023. This will be the first in-person Gathering since 2020. Nevada Humanities has proudly supported the Gathering every year—now in its 38th season.
By Shaun T. Griffin
Marooned in the Rio, the drunks asleep at the tables,
a pit boss climbs the slow rope to obscurity,
and my friend hangs on his eggs at the bar. The southern
wind tosses the breath of books like sand. Would that they
be read like the two women stumbling the revolving door behind me,
a twelve pack of Miller Lite in their arms, the last refuge of pain
on Saturday night.
By Christina Barr
The New Year has begun in earnest - filled with meetings, emails, and deadlines - and I confess that I am having difficulty recovering from my holiday break of sloth-like pajama days filled with generations of traditions, friends, good food, board games, and puzzles. Autumn is my favorite time of year for being out and about, but winter is for delicious hibernation. In Reno, we've been subsumed with snow, which has helped create a sense of tucking in, but I'm actually very excited about the year ahead.
