Sundance Books and Music is hosting an open house on Saturday, January 31 in honor of Reno’s first ever poet laureate, Gailmarie Pahmeier. The event will take place from 4-6 p.m. and refreshments will be served. The event will be an informal meet and greet where Pahmeier will share what she has planned for her term as poet laureate and how she hopes to get the community involved.
Gailmarie Pahmeier teaches creative writing and contemporary literature courses at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she has been honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award. Her work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies.
She is the author of the poetry collections The House on Breakaheart Road and The Rural Lives of Nice Girls, two chapbooks from Black Rock Press, and Shake It and It Snows, which won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award from Autumn House Press.
In 1999, Pahmeier was awarded the Silver Pen from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. In 2007, she received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.
There is no need to RSVP for the event; it’s free and open to the public.
