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SUMMARY:Nature is What We Come To in the Practice of Remembering
DESCRIPTION:Guests Lazarus Letcher\, Erica Vital-Lazare\, Claytee D. White\, and host Saretta Morgan will reflect on their personal eco-histories.\n\n\nThis conversation opens a space to celebrate the rich perspectives of Black artists\, social change makers\, and everyday folks who’ve deepened our capacities to feel\, observe\, and be present to natural worlds that are often weaponized against us as Black people shaped in various ways by the U.S. South (east/west). \nComing from a range of disciplines and movements—music\, poetry\, oral history\, birding\, land stewardship\, water protection\, sobriety\, demilitarization\, and more—guests Lazarus Letcher\, Erica Vital-Lazare\, Claytee D. White\, and host Saretta Morgan will reflect on their personal eco-histories and share literature\, songs\, photos\, and ephemera that speak to how they’ve come to understand their sense of place and possibility in ever-shifting and contested geographies. \nThis event is co-presented with The Library District. \nSaretta Morgan is the author of Alt-Nature (Coffee House Press\, 2024)\, and the chapbooks Feeling Upon Arrival (Ugly Duckling\, 2018)\, and room for a counter interior (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs\, 2017). \nHer work engages ecologies and forms of connectivity that develop alongside processes of U.S. militarization. Over the past decade she has participated in veteran-led organizing with Veterans for Peace (NYC) and About Face: Veterans Against the War\, as well as the humanitarian aid work of No More Deaths Phoenix\, which provides direct support to address the death and suffering of migrants in the Sonoran Desert. Additionally\, she has been fortunate to participate in\, and learn from\, Indigenous-led water protection and food sovereignty work\, Black-led community healing initiatives\, and trans-led support for detained migrants. She believes in a Free Palestine as part of the broader inevitability of LAND BACK for Indigenous peoples across the earth. \nBorn in Appalachia and raised on military installations\, she is a daughter of the South (east & west). She lives on Muscogee lands in Atlanta\, GA where she trains in Capoeira and wild bird rehabilitation. \nLazarus Letcher (they/them) is a Ph.D. candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico\, focusing on linking homophobia and transphobia to white supremacy culture and examining art as resistance. Letcher has written for Autostraddle\, them\, El Palacio\, and the occasional dry academic journal or rad zine. They’ve taught courses like Southwest Studies\, Race and Ethnic Studies\, and Peace and Justice Studies. \nLetcher plays viola in the environmental justice folk band Eileen & the In-Betweens and for art installations/durational performances with the group Stages of Tectonic Blackness. With the support of a National Performance Network Grant\, Stages of Tectonic Blackness set out to the New Mexico desert to create a film\, Blackdom\, performing on and connecting with the land of an abandoned all-Black ghost town. While working on Blackdom\, the group connected with descendants of this former utopian experiment and shared their stories in an exhibit at New Mexico State University. Stages of Tectonic Blackness’ work has been shown at the NMSU Art Museum\, Armory Center for the Arts\, the National Hispanic Cultural Center\, and other museums across the U.S. \nIn addition to this work\, Letcher is a trainer for Sins Invalid\, a performance-based disability justice organization. After surviving a murder attempt involving an assault weapon in 2023\, Letcher has used their voice to push for gun safety and to support other survivors of gun violence. \nErica Vital-Lazare is a Southern-born writer living in Las Vegas where she teaches Creative Writing and Marginalized Voices in Dystopian Literature at the College of Southern Nevada. She is cofounder of The Obodo Collective\, a nonprofit dedicated to combatting multigenerational poverty\, and founder of Our Mothers’ Gardens Book Festival at Obodo Urban Farm\, now in its third year. She is co-producer of the photo-narrative exhibition\, Obsidian & Neon:Building Black Life in Las Vegas and editor of the literary series\, Of the Diaspora with McSweeney’s Press. \nClaytee D. White is the inaugural director of the Oral History Research Center for the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas Libraries. She collects the history of Las Vegas and the surrounding area by gathering memories of events and experiences from longtime residents. Her projects include early health care in the city\, history of the John S. Park Neighborhood\, The Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project\, and a study of musicians who played with some of the greats in the entertainment field. White currently serves on the Board of Women of Diversity\, the UNLV Presidential Debate Planning Committee\, and the Historic Preservation Commission. White has also served on the Historic Preservation Commission for the city of Las Vegas\, Nevada Humanities executive board\, and is the past president of the Southwest Oral History Association. \nParking/getting there: The New West Las Vegas Library is located at 1861 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. Las Vegas\, NV 89106. Free parking is available on-site.
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LOCATION:1861 N M.L.K. Blvd\, 1861 North Martin Luther King Boulevard\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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SUMMARY:On Persian Poetry and the Art of Translation (Ahmad Shamlou’s Centennial)
DESCRIPTION:Join Niloufar Talebi and Maryam Ala Amjadi for a conversation on Ahmad Shamlou’s enduring legacy.\n\n\nNiloufar Talebi’s new book\, a bilingual edition of Ahmad Shamlou\, one of Iran’s most influential twentieth-century poets\, showcases her skill and dedication as a translator and cultural worker. In Elegies of the Earth\, published to mark the poet’s centennial\, Talebi brings Shamlou’s revolutionary voice of resistance and modernity to English readers. Join Maryam Ala Amjadi\, Iranian poet\, scholar\, and City of Asylum Fellow\, for a conversation with Talebi on Shamlou’s enduring legacy\, the power of poetry as witness\, the craft of translation\, and the vital role of verse in shaping and preserving Iran’s sociocultural and historical consciousness. \nNiloufar Talebi is an author\, educator\, producer\, and multidisciplinary storyteller whose work spans literature\, opera\, performance\, and cultural translation. Her practice is rooted in reinvention—transforming language and lived experience into art that awakens\, stirs\, and liberates. \nNiloufar is the editor and translator of Elegies of the Earth: Selected Poems by Ahmad Shamlou (World Poetry\, 2025)\, a sweeping centennial edition of Iran’s iconic twentieth-century poet of liberty\, whose work shaped modern Persian poetry. \nHer memoir Self-Portrait in Bloom (l’Aleph\, 2019)\, praised as “a hybrid wonder” (The Rumpus)\, combines personal narrative with her award-winning translations of Nobel Prize–nominated Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou. The book inspired the acclaimed opera Abraham in Flames (2019)\, which she commissioned\, produced\, presented\, and co-created in collaboration with composer Aleksandra Vrebalov and director Roy Rallo. \nWhether through writing\, performance\, or teaching\, Niloufar’s work is an invitation to imagine boldly\, connect deeply\, and transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. \nMaryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian writer\, translator\, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections\, a poetry chapbook\, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems into Persian. She won the ‘Young Generation Poet’ Prize in the inaugural Yinchuan International Poetry Festival in China and was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her short story “The Ice Seller of Hell” won the 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Award and will be published in the Meridians journal (Duke University Press). Ala Amjadi was previously a writer for the Tehran Times Daily\, where she founded and wrote a weekly page dedicated to the socio-cultural nuances of Iran. In 2017\, she earned a joint PhD in interdisciplinary literary studies as an Erasmus Mundus fellow from Kent (UK) and Porto (Portugal) universities. Her poems and translations of contemporary Iranian poets have been anthologized internationally\, and her poetry has been translated into multiple languages\, including Italian\, Spanish\, Chinese\, and Hindi. Her latest book\, Where Is the Mouth of That Word? (Selected Poems) was published by Poetrywala in 2022. \nParking/getting there: Parking on UNLV’s campus is free and open to all after 7pm; “reserved” parking spots are enforced 24 hours a day\, but you may park in any “staff\,” “student\,” or paid spots. To find the Rogers Literature & Law Building\, please turn onto East Harmon Ave and take it as far as you can into campus. We encourage you to park in Lot I or Lot J as they’re closest to our building.
URL:https://create.vegas/event/on-persian-poetry-and-the-art-of-translation-ahmad-shamlous-centennial/
LOCATION:UNLV’s Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101\, 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy\, Las Vegas\, Nevada\, 89154\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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SUMMARY:Writing the Book You Needed featuring George M. Johnson and KB Brookins
DESCRIPTION:Join BMI Shearing Fellow KB Brookins for an evening with George M. Johnson\, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue.\n\n\nJoin BMI Shearing Fellow KB Brookins for an evening with George M. Johnson\, author of All Boys Aren’t Blue. Following a reading of Johnson’s work\, Brookins will lead a conversation with Johndon about the craft of writing — including but not limited to structure\, hybrid genre writing (both authors use creative nonfiction\, poetry\, visual art\, and letters in their work)\, influence of other Black queer authors\, literary journalism\, and audience. They will discuss these topics through centering Johnson’s critically acclaimed books All Boys Aren’t Blue\,The Flamboyants\, and their upcoming debut romance novel\, There’s Always Next Year. After the program\, books by both writers will be available for purchase and signing. \nThis event is co-presented with The Library District and co-sponsored by The LGBTQ+ Center. \nGeorge M. Johnson is an Award-Winning Black Non-Binary Writer\, Author\, and Executive Producer located in the LA area. They are the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren’t Blue discussing their adolescence growing up as a young Black Queer boy in New Jersey through a series of powerful essays. The book was optioned for Television by Gabrielle Union in 2020\, and as of 2024 is the #1 most banned and challenged book in the United States. \nIn 2018\, George served as a NY State Spokesperson for the HIV stops with me Campaign. George was listed on The Root 100 Most Influential African Americans in 2020. The Out 100 Most Influential LGBTQ People in 2021. And in 2022 was honored as one of the TIME100 Next Most Influential People in the World for their fight against censorship in the United States. \nIn 2021 they wrote and Executive Produced the Dramatic Reading of All Boys Aren’t Blue starring Jenifer Lewis and Dyllon Burnside which received a 2022 Special Recognition Award from GLAAD\, and a 2023 Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Daytime Special. \nAs a former journalist\, George has written for over 50 major outlets including Teen Vogue\, Entertainment Tonight\, NBC\, and Buzzfeed and Huffpost. In 2019 George was awarded the Salute to Excellence Award by the National Association of Black Journalists for their article “When Racism Anchors your Health” in Vice Magazine. \nTheir second memoir WE ARE NOT BROKEN was released in September of 2021. It received the Carter G. Woodson Award which recognizes books that “accurately and sensitively depict the experience of one or more historically marginalized racial/ethnic groups in the United States”. The book also received the Nonfiction Honor Book in the YA category from the International Literacy Association. \nTheir third book Flamboyants the Queer Harlem Renaissance I wish I’d Known was released in September of 2024. It was an instant Indie Bestseller\, receiving 5 starred reviews and an Audie Award Nomination for best Audiobook for Young Adults. \nTheir first fiction book co-written with bestselling author Leah Johnson\, THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR will be released December of 2025\, already receiving a Starred Review from Booklist. \nGeorge is also a proud HBCU alum twice over\, and a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated. \nKB Brookins is a Black queer and trans writer\, educator\, and cultural worker from Texas. KB’s chapbook How To Identify Yourself with a Wound won the Saguaro Poetry Prize\, a Writer’s League of Texas Discovery Prize\, and a Stonewall Honor Book Award. Their debut collection Freedom House won the American Library Association Barbara Gittings Literature Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best First Book of Poetry. KB’s memoir Pretty (Alfred A. Knopf\, 2024) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award and the Dorothy Allison/Felice Picano Emerging Writer Award. \nParking/getting there: The New West Las Vegas Library is located at 1861 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. Las Vegas\, NV 89106. Free parking is available on-site.
URL:https://create.vegas/event/writing-the-book-you-needed-featuring-george-m-johnson-and-kb-brookins/
LOCATION:1861 N M.L.K. Blvd\, 1861 North Martin Luther King Boulevard\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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SUMMARY:The Art of Retelling the Truth with Melissa Febos and Jamie Hood
DESCRIPTION:Melissa Febos and Jamie Hood are two of the most astute essayists working today on the subject of trauma and embodiment.\n\n\nMelissa Febos and Jamie Hood are two of the most astute essayists working today on the subject of trauma and embodiment. For Febos\, this has taken the form of memoirs like Abandon Me and The Dry Season\, where she interrogates her life with the rigor and wit of a scholar. For Febos\, no statement\, no feeling\, no memory goes unexamined. Hood engages with a similar practice in her critical essays and books. In How to Be a Good Girl\, Hood explored notions of ideal womanhood and its threats through lyric essays and poems; in her latest\, Trauma Plot\, she charts the intersections between her personal traumas and the social responses to trauma narratives following the advent of MeToo. Both writers are esteemed\, relentless surveyors of the self. In this conversation moderated by 2025-26 Shearing Fellow Isle McElroy\, Febos and Hood will discuss queerness\, embodiment\, trauma\, and the narratives we create to make sense of ourselves. \nMelissa Febos is the national bestselling author of five books\, including Girlhood—winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism\, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative\, and a new memoir\, The Dry Season. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, MacDowell\, LAMBDA Literary\, the Black Mountain Institute\, the British Library\, the Bogliasco Foundation\, and others. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, The Best American Essays\, Vogue\, and The New York Times Magazine. She is a professor at the University of Iowa. \nJamie Hood is the author of Trauma Plot: A Life\, the hybrid pandemic diary how to be a good girl\, the semi-monthly\, Proust-infused newsletter regards\, marcel\, and a book of love poetry\, forthcoming in 2026. She lives in Brooklyn. \nIsle McElroy is the author of The Atmospherians and People Collide\, named a best book of 2023 by Vulture\, NPR\, Them\, and the New York Times Critics. Their essays appear in the New York Times\, The Cut\, The Atlantic\, and elsewhere. In 2021 they founded Debuts & Redos\, a socially-distanced\, in-person reading series for writers who debuted during lockdown and could not hold in-person readings. They have a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston and they currently teach in the MFA Program at Sarah Lawrence College. \nParking/getting there: For all patrons including those in wheelchairs or who have mobility challenges\, we recommend parking in the Cottage Grove Parking Garage\, Lot A. Parking at UNLV is free after 1pm on Fridays.
URL:https://create.vegas/event/the-art-of-retelling-the-truth-with-melissa-febos-and-jamie-hood/
LOCATION:Dr. Arturo Rando-Grillot Hall\, 4327-4371 South Maryland Parkway\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89119\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Maz Jobrani and Maryam Ala Amjadi
DESCRIPTION:Join BMI for free a conversation with actor\, author\, and comedian Maz Jobrani.\n\n\nJoin BMI’s City of Asylum Fellow Maryam Ala Amjadi in a conversation with actor\, author\, and comedian Maz Jobrani. They’ll discuss their experiences moving through both Iranian and American cultures\, and explore how humor can help us move through the world. \nMaz Jobrani is a globally renowned comedian and actor who performs to packed audiences around the world. Jobrani is known for his role as the lovable “Fawz” on CBS’s Superior Donuts and has appeared on hit shows including Grey’s Anatomy\, Curb Your Enthusiasm\, Shameless\, and Last Man Standing. He’s a regular on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and The Late Late Show with James Corden. His stand-up specials include Immigrant on Netflix and several on Showtime. He’s performed at the White House\, hosted the International Emmys\, and was a founding member of the Axis of Evil tour. Maz is also a bestselling author\, TED speaker\, and regular panelist on NPR’s Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me. \nMaryam Ala Amjadi is an Iranian writer\, translator\, and researcher. She is the author of two poetry collections\, a poetry chapbook\, and the translator of a selection of Raymond Carver’s poems into Persian. She won the ‘Young Generation Poet’ Prize in the inaugural Yinchuan International Poetry Festival in China and was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her short story “The Ice Seller of Hell” won the 2024 Elizabeth Alexander Award and will be published in the Meridians journal (Duke University Press). Ala Amjadi was previously a writer for the Tehran Times Daily\, where she founded and wrote a weekly page dedicated to the socio-cultural nuances of Iran. In 2017\, she earned a joint PhD in interdisciplinary literary studies as an Erasmus Mundus fellow from Kent (UK) and Porto (Portugal) universities. Her poems and translations of contemporary Iranian poets have been anthologized internationally\, and her poetry has been translated into multiple languages\, including Italian\, Spanish\, Chinese\, and Hindi. Her latest book\, Where Is the Mouth of That Word? (Selected Poems) was published by Poetrywala in 2022. \nParking/getting there: Parking on UNLV’s campus is free and open to all after 7pm. The UNLV Student Union is located off of Maryland Parkway and East Harmon Ave between the Greenspun Hall and Flora Dungan Humanities buildings. Parking Lot D is closest to the Student Union.
URL:https://create.vegas/event/an-evening-with-maz-jobrani-and-maryam-ala-amjadi/
LOCATION:Philip J. Cohen Theatre in the UNLV Student Union\, 4505 S Maryland Pkwy\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89154\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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SUMMARY:StraightioLab with Special Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join BMI for a live show with StraightioLab\, a podcast that unpacks the rich\, multi-colored tapestry of straight culture.\n\n\nJoin BMI at the Vegas Theatre Company theater for a live show with StraightioLab! StraightioLab is an intellectual podcast where smart comedians George Civeris and Sam Taggart unpack the rich\, multi-colored tapestry of straight culture. In this live show\, George and Sam will be joined by two special guests to hold a MIRROR to society and finally get to the BOTTOM of mysterious and perverse topics such as college fraternities\, gender reveal parties\, the military\, themed restaurants\, and the concept of “the holidays.” Scared? Good.  \nDoors open at 6:30pm and seating is general admission. \nThis program is sponsored by Marc & Jill Abelman and supported by The Center. \nParking/getting there: Street parking and some metered lots are available throughout the Arts District. Click here to learn more about public parking in Las Vegas.
URL:https://create.vegas/event/straightiolab-with-special-guests/
LOCATION:Vegas Theatre Company\, 1025 S 1st St\,\, Las Vegas\, NV\, 89101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Literary & Film
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