Join us for a special stream on collaborative poetry with poets Heather Lang-Cassera and Simon Hunt. We will learn about collaborative poems, the benefits and challenges of creating them, and set aside time for participants to make collaborative poems of their own!
Heather Lang-Cassera is a a full-time lecturer with Nevada State University, a Tolsun Books publisher, a Black Fox Literary Magazine poetry editor, and a Clark County, Nevada Poet Laureate Emeritus. She was a 2022 Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellow. She is the author of Gathering Broken Light (Unsolicited Press, 2021), which was written with the support of a Nevada Arts Council grant and won the NYC Big Book Award in Poetry, Social/Political. Her collection of ecopoems, Firefall, is forthcoming with Unsolicited Press in 2025. Her poetry is widely published including in Lumina, North American Review, Raleigh Review, and South Dakota Review, and etched into sidewalks as permanent installations by both the City of Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada.
Simon Hunt lives and writes in Massachusetts, having lived in Monterey, California, for 20 years and Las Vegas, Nevada, for three years. He has been a teacher for more than three decades, predominantly in California and at the high school level. His poems have been published widely in print and online journals. 2018 saw the publication of his first collection of poems, Lesser Magi, and in 2019 his first play, "Re-run," was staged. Simon was born in what is now Zimbabwe and also lived in South Africa and the United Kingdom as well as the USA during his childhood. A father of two, he served the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation in Carmel, California, as a volunteer tour docent and trustee for over a decade. His second collection, Endlings, was published in Summer 2023.
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