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Saturday, April 11
 

1:00pm PDT

Poetry - Elisa Garcia, Melanie Perish and Karen Terrey
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery
To be released in 2026 Elisa Garcia reads from Blackout and her healing journey with alcoholism.  

Melanie Perish reads from her poem Apparition at the Edge of the World, a poignant piece that captures the essence of sorrow and the passage of time, published in Rust & Moth, Spring, 2025.

Karen Terrey shares new poems published in various literary journals and anthologies in the past year.
Authors
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Karen Terrey

Karen Terrey serves as Poet Laureate for Nevada County, CA. She's an editor and writing coach, offering creative writing workshops online and in Truckee through her business Tangled Roots Writing. Her award-winning poems have appeared in anthologies and journals, including Rhino... Read More →
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Melanie Perish

Melanie Perish is a gender fluid crone who’s interested in poetry. Her work has appeared in Sequestrum, Rust & Moth, West Trestle Review, Persimmon Tree, Ravens Perch, The Meadow, and other small press publications. Her poems were featured on Nevada Humanities Double Down Blog... Read More →
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Elisa Garcia

Elisa Garcia is a Mexican-American writer and spoken word artist whose voice was born in Los Angeles and has been shaping the Reno poetry scene since 2009. She is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Elisa has guided young poets... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Piper J Gallery 10250 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

1:00pm PDT

Poetry - Samantha Pfisterer and Teri Ketchie
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830

Samantha Pfisterer shares poems from her anthology: Before I Knew Better (and other Poems of Becoming) to be published April 17, 2026.

Teri Ketchie Nephew reads Where is Rock Bottom? published in the anthology, Women in a Golden State, Gunpowder Press, summer 2025
Authors
avatar for Samantha Pfisterer

Samantha Pfisterer

Samantha Jo Pfisterer is a Nevada-based poet and storyteller drawn to themes of becoming, resilience, and love in all its forms. Her debut anthology, Before I Knew Better (and Other Poems of Becoming), explores growth through heartbreak, healing, and self-discovery. When she isn’t... Read More →
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Teri Ketchie

Former bilingual teacher and mentor in Watsonville, California, Teri writes poetry and volunteers as a docent at a local wetland. Her poems weave together themes of nature, travel and family. She was a featured reader at the 2024 and 2025 Santa Cruz Celebration of the Muse and has... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830 10060 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Poetry

3:00pm PDT

Poetry - Aimee Lowenstern, Teresa Breeden and Elisa Carlsen
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
Aimee Lowenstern shares For Ornithologists, Phlebotomists, Geneticists, and Poets recently published in Black Fox Literary Magazine.

Teresa Breeden reads from her poetry book, Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a tasty dollop of irony with a rich awareness of our shared vulnerabilities.

Elisa Carlsen shares poetry recently published in Scapegoat Review and carte blanche.  
Authors
avatar for Teresa Breeden

Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
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Aimee Lowenstern

Aimee Lowenstern (she/her) is a twenty seven year old poet living in Tahoe. She has cerebral palsy, a pulse, and a pen. Her work can be found in several literary journals, including Thread Lit, Fifth Wheel Press, and Black Fox Literary Magazine.
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Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative poet and artist, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Scapegoat Review, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa’s poetry has won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

3:00pm PDT

Poetry - Jesse James Ziegler, Aimee Lowenstern, Elisa Carlsen, Teresa Breeden and Alexis Cota
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery

Alexis Cota, a Truckee High School student, shares original poetry

Aimee Lowenstern shares For Ornithologists, Phlebotomists, Geneticists, and Poets recently published in Black Fox Literary Magazine.

Teresa Breeden reads from her poetry book, Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a tasty dollop of irony with a rich awareness of our shared vulnerabilities.

Elisa Carlsen shares poetry recently published in Scapegoat Review and carte blanche.  

Jesse James Ziegler is the City of Reno Poet Laureate Emeritus. Jesse will read from 50th Anniversary Nevada Poetry Society Anthology and Is It Monday Yet? An Anthology of Monday Night Poets.
Authors
avatar for Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen

Elisa Carlsen was born and raised in the high desert of Northern Nevada. A contemplative poet and artist, her writing has appeared in Lunch Ticket, Scapegoat Review, Carte Blanche, Anti-Heroin Chic, and elsewhere. Elisa’s poetry has won awards from the Writers Guild of Astoria and... Read More →
avatar for Teresa Breeden

Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
avatar for Aimee Lowenstern

Aimee Lowenstern

Aimee Lowenstern (she/her) is a twenty seven year old poet living in Tahoe. She has cerebral palsy, a pulse, and a pen. Her work can be found in several literary journals, including Thread Lit, Fifth Wheel Press, and Black Fox Literary Magazine.
avatar for Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler is Poet Laureate Emeritus for the City of Reno (5th-Jan/24-Dec/25). He is the Vice President of Spoken Views Collective, the Creative Director for Monday Night Poetry (Voted 2024 & 2025 Best Open Mic - Reno News & Review), True Colors Poetry and Collective Breath... Read More →
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Alexis Cota

Alexis Cota is a Finalist for the Nevada County Poetry Out Loud championship for 2026 and an Intern for the Truckee Cultural District. He is a member of the school’s Poetry and Prose Club.
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J.Macon King

J.MACON KING is a novelist, award-winning poet, writer, interview journalist and publisher of the Mill Valley Literary Review, which San Francisco Magazine touted "…drags the literary journal kicking and screaming into the 21st century." His debut novelized-memoir, Circus of the... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

4:00pm PDT

Poetry - Elisa Garcia. J. C. Olander and Jesse James Ziegler
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery
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.
Authors
avatar for Elisa Garcia

Elisa Garcia

Elisa Garcia is a Mexican-American writer and spoken word artist whose voice was born in Los Angeles and has been shaping the Reno poetry scene since 2009. She is the current City of Reno Poet Laureate and a proud member of the Spoken Views Collective. Elisa has guided young poets... Read More →
avatar for Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler

Jesse James Ziegler is Poet Laureate Emeritus for the City of Reno (5th-Jan/24-Dec/25). He is the Vice President of Spoken Views Collective, the Creative Director for Monday Night Poetry (Voted 2024 & 2025 Best Open Mic - Reno News & Review), True Colors Poetry and Collective Breath... Read More →
avatar for J. C. Olander

J. C. Olander

J. C. Olander, an innovator of spoken work poetry arising from land based ethics rooted in science, observation, and reflection. He explores mystical revelations and all that is possible in being here now. What we make of life is what we get. Olander creates musical image phrasing... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Ridgeline Gallery 10104 Donner Pass Rd, Truckee, CA 96161, USA
  Poetry

4:00pm PDT

Poetry - Jillian Makoutz, Teresa Breeden, and Nisha Srinivasa
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830
Jillian Makoutz reads A Poem About Spring to be published in 2026 about embracing the beauty of the moment in the midst of the chaos of an unpredictable world.

Nisha Srinivasa shares a selection of poems from her book, The Synesthete's Rainbow, officially releasing April 28th, 2026.

Teresa Breeden will read poetry from her latest book., Handling Shadows, published in the Fall of 2025, which blends a tasty dollop of irony with a rich awareness of our shared vulnerabilities.

Authors
avatar for Teresa Breeden

Teresa Breeden

Teresa earned her English degree from Loyal Marymount University and is a NV Arts Council Fellowship winner. She has one published novel (Falling by Tori Briar) and one book of poetry, Handling Shadows. Aware that words can both create and destroy, Teresa uses her words as a means... Read More →
avatar for Jillian Makoutz

Jillian Makoutz

Jillian Makoutz, author of Four Seasons in the Sierra, lives in Sierraville with her husband, three children, two cats and lots of chickens. Jillian loves writing poetry while in nature, but her love for language has taken her many places, including teaching English overseas in Croatia... Read More →
avatar for Nisha Srinivasa

Nisha Srinivasa

Nisha Srinivasa is a writer, educator, and lover of the arts. Writing has always been her medium of self-expression, a way to explore and articulate the complexities of love, identity, and transformation. Beyond her own creative work, she is passionate about helping others— especially... Read More →
Saturday April 11, 2026 4:00pm - 4:45pm PDT
Gallery 5830 10060 Donner Pass Road, Truckee, CA, USA
  Poetry
 

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