Truckee Literary Crawl

Elisa Garcia is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Through her poetry, she delves into family, identity, and the tender journey of self-acceptance - using her words as both resistance and a path to healing. 

Published in the anthology "Voices" by Cold River Press in 2025, J.C. Olander reads To the Earth, a poem honoring the Earth: its beauty and intimate relationship with humans.

Jesse James Ziegler is the City of Reno Poet Laureate Emeritus. He' reads from 50th Anniversary Nevada Poetry Society Anthology and Is It Monday Yet? An Anthology of Monday Night Poets.