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Incline Village residents who think they must drive down the hill to get a dose of culture will be pleasantly suprised, as famed poets will read there works at Sierra Nevada College tonight.
Literature lovers can explore the relationship between human beings and the natural world with distinguished poets Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury from 6 to 8 p.m. in Prim Library.
The SNC English Program has hosted poetry readings for the past six years in April as celebration of National Poetry Month. Tonight's event marks the second time a fall reading as been added to the series.
Ingrid Wendt is the author of five books of poems, two anthologies, a book-length teaching guide, numerous articles and reviews, and more than 200 individual poems in various magazines and anthologies.
SNC English program chair June Sylvester Saraceno first encountered Wendt's work in a text book when she taught Creative Writing at the college. The two met at an Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Reno and Wendt agreed to speak at SNC.
"I didn't have to work really hard to get her to come; she was really excited about it," Saraceno said.
Most recently, Wendt received the "Distinguished Achievement Award" from the president of Cornell College, her alma mater.
Of her poetry, Wendt said in a press release, "Most of my poems are grounded in real experience - my own, or that of others - and the ways that experience reflects upon our larger human condition." Her most recent book, Surgeonfish, contains poems set in Norway, Italy, the Middle East and the American West, and explores our human 'place' in the natural world and our uniquely American 'place' in the global order of things.
Wendt's husband, Ralph Salisbury, was born of a Cherokee story-teller/singer father and a story-telling Irish-American mother. He is professor emeritus of the University of Oregon and the author of two books of short fiction and seven books of poetry.
"Though I have lived and worked among the intelligentsia of many nations, my writing comes from having lived as a questing, mixed-race, working-class individual in a violent world and my work is offered to the spirit of human goodness, which unites all people in the eternal struggle against evil, a struggle to prevail against global extinction," Salisbury said in a press release.
Join students and community members this evening for what is sure to be an entertaining and enriching cultural event.
"It's a real privilege to be able to host poets of this caliber at SNC," Saraceno said.
The reading, including a question and answer session, is free and open to the public. A private SNC associates reception for the poets will immediately follow the reading. For information on membership in SNC associates, contact Tara Purinton at (775) 831-1314, ext. 7425.
Staff writer, Lucy Redoglia, can be reached at (775) 831-4666 ext. 113 or at lredoglia@tahoebonanza.com.
Literature lovers can explore the relationship between human beings and the natural world with distinguished poets Ingrid Wendt and Ralph Salisbury from 6 to 8 p.m. in Prim Library.
The SNC English Program has hosted poetry readings for the past six years in April as celebration of National Poetry Month. Tonight's event marks the second time a fall reading as been added to the series.
Ingrid Wendt is the author of five books of poems, two anthologies, a book-length teaching guide, numerous articles and reviews, and more than 200 individual poems in various magazines and anthologies.
SNC English program chair June Sylvester Saraceno first encountered Wendt's work in a text book when she taught Creative Writing at the college. The two met at an Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Reno and Wendt agreed to speak at SNC.
"I didn't have to work really hard to get her to come; she was really excited about it," Saraceno said.
Most recently, Wendt received the "Distinguished Achievement Award" from the president of Cornell College, her alma mater.
Of her poetry, Wendt said in a press release, "Most of my poems are grounded in real experience - my own, or that of others - and the ways that experience reflects upon our larger human condition." Her most recent book, Surgeonfish, contains poems set in Norway, Italy, the Middle East and the American West, and explores our human 'place' in the natural world and our uniquely American 'place' in the global order of things.
Wendt's husband, Ralph Salisbury, was born of a Cherokee story-teller/singer father and a story-telling Irish-American mother. He is professor emeritus of the University of Oregon and the author of two books of short fiction and seven books of poetry.
"Though I have lived and worked among the intelligentsia of many nations, my writing comes from having lived as a questing, mixed-race, working-class individual in a violent world and my work is offered to the spirit of human goodness, which unites all people in the eternal struggle against evil, a struggle to prevail against global extinction," Salisbury said in a press release.
Join students and community members this evening for what is sure to be an entertaining and enriching cultural event.
"It's a real privilege to be able to host poets of this caliber at SNC," Saraceno said.
The reading, including a question and answer session, is free and open to the public. A private SNC associates reception for the poets will immediately follow the reading. For information on membership in SNC associates, contact Tara Purinton at (775) 831-1314, ext. 7425.
Staff writer, Lucy Redoglia, can be reached at (775) 831-4666 ext. 113 or at lredoglia@tahoebonanza.com.
