Sierra Nevada College Poetry Center

03/02/2017

The Sierra Nevada Poetry Center is excited to be joining the Poetry Coalition - for more information, please read here:

Find details about every creative writing competition—including poetry contests, short story competitions, essay contests, awards for novels, grants for translators, and more—that we’ve published in the Grants & Awards section of

02/28/2017

Emerging Writers Series: Morgan Parker

The English Department at the University of Nevada, Reno presents poet Morgan Parker on Thursday, March 2, at 4:00 p.m. in the Knowledge Center (Room 422) at the University of Nevada, Reno. The event is free and open to all.

Parker is the author of Other Peoples’ Comfort Keeps Me Up at Night (Switchback Books 2015), which was selected for the 2013 Gatewood Prize and as a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her second collection, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé, was published by Tin House Books this month.

The Emerging Writers Series is funded in part by Nevada Humanities through a grant to Black Mountain Institute.

12/13/2016

Congratulations to Patricia Smith & the entire group of 2017 NEA Fellows!!

10/24/2016

The 29th annual event will also recognize up-and-coming Nevada author, Tod Goldberg for his work

08/25/2016

Poetry Center Open House is TONIGHT! from 5:30-6:30 in Prim LIbrary. Come hang out, have a snack, and listen to poets Cathy Linh Che, Gayle Brandeis, June Sylvester Saraceno and Jared Stanley each read a favorite poem from the collection!

08/04/2016

"I could plead for more work

& merge onto the pedestrian highway, working a fast-acting sud into the pallet of exhaustion while pigs on high horseback pen and prod

or I could demand the leisure to make love and laugh

as the honeydew and the grapefruit, wisteria brine and datura liquor, as this relentless mortal earth"

I could clean this shovel or nap in its possible use I could mend the clasp and the seam I could make lace, iron, and houses I could plead for more

07/26/2016

A poem by Kate Tempest

The British rapper, poet and author closes Monday night’s episode with a moving performance of her poem Progress

07/25/2016

Three poems by Teow Lim Goh

"I stand before the cocoons, waiting
for a twitch in the shells, a crack revealing
a colorful wing. There are none."

Three new poems by Teow Lim Goh: "Butterfly Pavilion," "In the Woods," and "Stars."

07/20/2016

Some poems by Anca Roncea

07/15/2016

"Like Father, Like Daughter" by Clara B. Jones

"every fine movement a random tremor
like green leaves fluttering
predictable, chronic"

Wordgathering in an online journal of disability-related poetry, that seeks work from writers with and without disabilities. It also features comment, book reviews, essays and critiques of disability literature.

07/12/2016

Four poems by Teow Lim Goh

"His father died
suddenly, leaving a sick wife
and four young girls.
He decided to go to America, stake
a claim on Golden Mountain,
and come back for me."

07/06/2016

Two poems by Shakthi Shrima

"Above you, alka, the sky is bright as a vowel—the same sound

your sister tilts down her throat like an aftertaste when

she says your name, sun lacing the swift spirals of her fingers

like cowberries."

she taught you how to wriggle your hips until the boys curdled like sour milk, told you tangency was just another way of touching yourself.