LOOK AND LISTEN

RECORDINGS AND VIDEO FROM PREVIOUS FESTIVALS.

2025 Sierra Poetry Festival

2024 Sierra Poetry Festival Highlights

Our thanks to Michael West of BobbieMoon Video, and to Casey Garrotto for his additional footage.

In Conversation 2024: Pádraig Ó Tuama and Sam Willetts. Moderated by Sands Hall.

NOTE: Intro is silent. Sound begins at 25 sec. mark.

In Conversation: Sierra Poetry Festival 2023

NOTE: Intro is silent. Sound begins at 25 sec. mark.

IN CONVERSATION:

Listen to Mark Tredinnick with Australian poets Judith Nangala Crispin and Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello, recorded live from Australia, as they discuss agency, sovereignty and self-determination in poetry, power dynamics between poetry and readership, and themes of possession, ownership and belonging. Recorded April 13, 2023. Duration: 43 minutes.

2018 Sierra Poetry Festival

Enjoy these few moments from our 2018 mainstage event. Poets and presenters during 2017 and 2018 have included Al Young, Bill Gainer, Charles Entrekin, Climbing PoeTree, Cynthia Haven, Dana Gioia, Daniel Reeves, David Kipen, Eve Bradford, Gail Entrekin, Gayle Brandeis, Gene Berson, Genny Lim, Guari DelGado, Indigo Moor, Jahan Khalighi, Jonathan Kinsman, Judy Halebsky, Kazim Ali, Kim Culbertson, Kim Shuck, Kirsten Casey, Luanne McKinnon, Marcelo Herdandez Castillo, Maria K Chavez, Maxima Kahn, Mel Pryor, Molly Fisk, Neeli Cherkovski, Pablo Frasconi, Robin Coste Lewis, Sands Hall, Shawn Odyssey and Straight Out Scribes (V.S. Chochezi and Staajabu).

Language, Memory, and the Poems of Robin Coste Lewis, via Stanford University, The Book Haven by Cynthia Haven

NPR / Capital Public Radio - Beth Ruyak speaks with poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Recorded Live by Capital Public Radio on April 25, 2018 in advance of Sierra Poetry Festival

Gary Snyder and Will Staple - a benefit reading for Sierra Poetry Festival and the San Juan Ridge Community Library

A photo gallery from the reading by Gary Snyder and Will Staple

2018 Sierra Poetry Festival Media Lounge with Elisa Parker

Live-streamed on Facebook by KVMR Radio from the Nevada City Winery on April 27, 2018. Show host: Alisa Parker

California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia Keynote Address at the 2017 Sierra Poetry Festival

Recorded Live at Sierra College, April 1, 2017

CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO interview (2019) with Keynote Speaker, Poet and Pulitzer winner Forrest Gander and Nevada County Arts Council Executive Director Eliza Tudor

2020 Sierra Poetry Festival Returns with a New Format

2019 Sierra Poetry Festival featured….