Pulitzer Prize Nominated Poet David Lee in Silver City May 27th
Submitted by Carson Now Reader on Fri, 05/26/2017 - 6:08pm
Event Date:
May 27, 2017 - 1:00pm The Resident Artist Program in Silver City, Nevada announces poet David Lee's return to Silver City this spring.
He'll offer another of his extraordinary readings at the Silver City School House at 385 High Street on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 1pm. James Hoggard, the former poet laureate of Texas, writes,“Lee’s poems will make you laugh till your tears make it impossible to see the page.”
Named one of the 12 greatest writers to ever emerge from the state by Utah Endowment for the Humanities, David Lee was Utah’s first and longest serving poet laureate.
David Lee has been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and a baseball player. He’s published 22 books of poetry, and has received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts and the Entrada Institute’s Ward Roylance Award, and was also considered as a candidate for Poet Laureate of the United States.
His book Last Call was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and his 2016 book Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans has recently been nominated for both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award.
David Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry.
What is the Resident Artist Program? Located in rural northwestern Nevada 3 miles from Virginia City and 29 miles from Lake Tahoe, Silver City is a small community on the Comstock within one of the nation's federally designated historic landmarks.
The Resident Artist Program in Silver City is entering its fourth year. The Program provides a venue for those from other parts of the U.S. and the world to engage with people of the region through the arts. Those creating in the performing, visual, media, design, or literary arts are invited to apply to reside for up to 3 months at McCormick House, a geodesic dome designed in the 1970s by Nevada artist Jim McCormick. In exchange, visiting artists offer public performances, exhibitions, readings, workshops, etc. in Silver City and other northern Nevada communities. The Program is privately funded and directed by Theo McCormick and Quest Lakes.
Resident artists, including musicians, painters, fabricators, poets, photographers, and cultural researchers from New Zealand, Oregon, California, and Nevada have been scheduled through Winter of 2018.
- baseball
- $12
- 2017
- 2018
- artist
- artists
- arts
- Arts and Entertainment
- Books
- California
- candidate
- City
- community
- Community,
- cultural
- Exhibitions
- grants
- historic
- Humanities
- Lake
- Literary
- May
- media
- Mountains
- musicians
- National Book Award
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Nevada
- new
- New Zealand
- Northern Nevada
- Northwestern Nevada
- Oregon
- performing
- poetry
- poets
- program
- public
- Pulitzer Prize
- resident artist program
- Rural
- saturday
- school
- Seminary
- silver
- Silver City
- Silver City Nevada
- Spring
- state
- tahoe
- the Arts
- the Comstock
- U
- United States
- Utah
- Virginia City
- western
- Winter
- workshops
- writers
- Comstock
- Lake Tahoe
