Date: Thursday, March 5

Time: 6:00pm

Title: Book Launch! Priya Hutner in Conversation with Karen Terrey

Venue: Alibi Truckee, 10069 Bridge St, Truckee

Celebrate the release of author and Tahoe Literary Festival co-founder, Priya Hutner's debut memoir Chasing Nirvana; A Seeker's Story of Love, Loss, and Liberation. With raw, unflinching honesty, Priya chronicles her years inside a cult-like spiritual community led by a charismatic female guru from Brooklyn and her difficult exit.

Date: Thursday, March 12

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Venue: Alibi Truckee, 10069 Bridge St, Truckee

Open Mic hosted by Nevada County Poet Laureate Karen Terrey, open mic readers compete for a chance to read their work from the Main Stage at the 10th annual Sierra Poetry Festival on Saturday, April 18. Two winners will be selected by a panel of judges.

Date: Friday, March 27

Time: 6:00-7:30pm

Title: Five Nevada County Women Poets

Venue: Miners Foundry, 325 Spring Street, Nevada City

Description: Five Nevada County Women Poets—Kirsten Casey, Judy Crowe, Molly Fisk, Ingrid Keriotis, Judie Rae—read poems about hope and history, love and life, the joys and tribulations of our time and place, and more. Collectively, the poets have published hundreds of poems in books, magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and literary journals.

Date: Saturday, March 28

Time: 3:00-6:00pm

Title: 2nd Annual Nevada City Poetry Crawl

Venue: Various throughout downtown Nevada City

Now in its second year, wander the streets of Nevada City and enjoy a variety of readings and performances by Nevada County Poets. Grab a drink or a tasty treat and delight in the variety of performers from Nevada County youth to poems set to music, and everything in between!

Date: Wednesday, April 1

Time: 6:00pm

Film Showing: Paterson

Venue: The Onyx Downtown at the Nevada Theatre, 401 Broad Street, Nevada City

Special Screening of Paterson, starring Adam Driver. A fundraiser for Sierra Poetry Festival

Date: Friday, April 3

Time: 10:30-12:00pm

Title: A Poetry Workshop: Imagination and Resistance

Venue: Truckee Library, 10031 Levon Ave, Truckee

Including social or historical elements along with your personal experience in a new poem can add layers and relevance. Poems of resistance and imagination will be our guides to find approaches to write about a moment within your own life and to explore how to respond with your own voice to current events happening around you.

Date: Friday, April 3

Time: 5:00-7:00pm

Title: Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry Opening Reception

Venue: ASiF, 940 Idaho Maryland Road, Grass Valley

Description: Local poets will read their poems inspired by the artwork of the resident artists at ASiF. The poems will be displayed in the gallery alongside the artworks that inspired them. After the readings, the poets will be selling and signing their published works.

Date: Saturday, April 4

Time: 10:00am-12:00pm

Title: Bear Yuba Land Trust presents Poetry on Preserves

Venue: Wildflower Ridge Preserve

Annual event hosted by Bear Yuba Land Trust bringing the magic of poetry into the meadow. Poets TBA

Date: Friday, April 10

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Title: Poetry Infused Art Opening Reception and Dance Performance

Venue: Nevada City Winery, 321 Spring Street, Nevada City

Visual Artists, and Dancers collaborated utilizing poems that they chose together around a particular theme. The collaborative process was open for either the Artist to be inspired by a Dancer’s choreographed piece or  for the Dancer to be inspired by the Artist’s artwork, in some cases it went both ways. This process will culminate in an Exhibit and a Dance Performance, both poetry- infused. On the evening of the Opening Reception both Dancers and Artists will share their experience of collaboration with the audience after the Dance performance.

Date: Saturday, April 11

Time: 2:00-7:00pm

Title: Truckee Literary Crawl

Venues: Various locations throughout downtown Truckee

The Literary Crawl is a free community event held at businesses throughout downtown Truckee to celebrate the written word, works by new writers, authors, poets and other creatives, and to create a space to support and promote the arts.

Date: Saturday, April 11

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Title: Tangled Roots & Truckee Literary Crawl Open Mic

Venue: Alibi Truckee, 10069 Bridge St, Truckee

Description: A community open mic as the culmination of the Truckee Literary Crawl

Date: Saturday, April 11

Time: 6:00pm

Title: North Woods with Daniel Mason

Venue: Sierra College, 250 Sierra College Drive, Grass Valley

Culminating event of the annual Nevada County Reads, in conversation with author Daniel Mason.

Date: Wednesday, April 15

Time: 7:00-8:30pm

Title: Book Launch for Molly Fisk's novel-in-verse Walking Wheel

Venue: Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City

A tender, lyrical portrait of pioneer love and labor that revives the quiet heroism of everyday life in 1875, where intimacy, resilience, and devotion shape the story of home.

Date: Thursday, April 16

Time: 5:30pm

Title: Poetry Open Mic Slam

Venue: The Iron Door at the Holbrooke, 212 W Main Street, Grass Valley

Annual open mic where community members are encouraged to bring their best poetry and compete for a chance to read from the Main Stage on Saturday, April 18. Two winners will be selected by a panel of judges.

Date: Friday, April 17

Time: 5:00pm

Title: Media Lounge

Venue: Nevada City Winery, 321 Spring Street, Nevada City

Join us for a glass of wine, or tune in from the comfort of home, as we live-stream interviews with the Main Stage presenters.

Date: Friday, April 24

Time: 5:00-7:00pm

Title: Ekphrastic Fantastic: Art-Inspired Poetry, Part 2

Venue: ASiF, 940 Idaho Maryland Road, Grass Valley

Local poets will read their poems inspired by the artwork of the resident artists at ASiF. The poems will be displayed in the gallery alongside the artworks that inspired them.  After the readings, the poets will be selling and signing their published works.

Date: Friday, April 24

Time: 6:00-8:00pm

Title: California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick reading Writers in the Woods Series

Venue: UNR Campus - Incline Village, 999 Tahoe Blvd, Incline Village, NV

Lee Herrick, the two-term California State Poet Laureate, will give a reading and discuss his work at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. He is set to read from his extensive collection of poetry, including "In Praise of Late Wonder: New and Selected Poems," "Scar and Flower," "Gardening Secrets of the Dead," and "This Many Miles from Desire."

Date: Saturday, April 25

Time: 1:00-3:00pm

Title: 5th Annual Poetry in Parks: Empire Mine

Venue: Empire Mine State Historic Park, 10791 E Empire St, Grass Valley

The fifth annual Poetry in Parks, in collaboration with Cal Parks, is a celebration of community poetry at the historic Empire Mine, in Grass Valley. SAEL high school students and local poets read their work on the grounds of the Mine, rain or shine. 1-3 pm, Saturday, April 25th, with a $5 entry fee charged by the park.

Date: Saturday, April 25

Time: 6:00-8:00pm 

Title: Poetic Crossings | Back The, Tomorrow

Venue: North Columbia Schoolhouse Cultural Center, 17894 Tyler Foote Road, Nevada City

Description: Drawing on the title of Peter Coyote’s book of poems, this year’s iteration of Poetic Crossings leans into the notion that what unfolds on the ridge today is inseparable from what came before—and from what may yet come. The present is shaped by memory, by inheritance, by traces of old ways that never fully disappear. Time here is not a straight line but a cycle: what was can return through remembering, through discovery, or, at times, through complete collapse.