The Cycle of Life and Art: A Close Reading
By Mei-Mei Mijares and Niko Mendoza
Recipe for a Beautiful Friendship was written by us for a Pho-etry workshop we did with Nevada Humanities last year. It tells the epic tale of our blossoming friendship that started in 2022 but really felt like uncovering a bulb of sisterhood that had been growing all along…
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Songs in the Desert: Celebrating the Poetry of Marydean Martin
By Angela M. Brommel
Tucked inside my copy of Who will love the earth is a photocopy of a poem James Kavanaugh wrote for Marydean Martin after her mother’s death, “For Vassie, who passed just before Christmas.”
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“It’s Not Just a Job—It’s My Sport, My Legacy”: Cooking and Highlighting AAPI Stories in Southern Nevada
By Kathy Pham
It has been a little over a month since my end-of-the-year project as a Nevada Humanities intern: creating and leading the community program, Phoetry Night, which celebrated AAPI heritage…
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Gazing Up in the New Year
By Angela M. Brommel
All day long the people are people-ing so hard it feels impossible
to breathe sometimes. The only free place left is in the sky.
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