Capital City Arts Initiative

Saturday, February 11, 2012
Reading, 1pm
Writing workshop, 2:20pm
at the BRIC
108 E Proctor St, Carson City

The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] invites you to attend a poetry reading and writing workshop Saturday, February 11 with Teresa Breeden and Krista Lukas, award-winning local writers. The free events will take place at the Business Resource Innovation Center [BRIC], 108 East Proctor Street, Carson City Nevada. The artists’ reading takes place at 1:00pm followed immediately by a writing workshop at 2:20pm. The Carson City Library co-sponsors these events with CCAI.

Teresa Breeden is an active member of the Ash Canyon Poets and has been writing poetry for more than half her life. The Amherst Review, California Quarterly, Cold Mountain Review, Hurricane Review, Loonfeather, Mid-America Poetry Review, Ruah, Spillway, White Heron, and the anthology 90 Poets of the Nineties have all published her poetry. In 2007, she was awarded a Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship for her poetry. She regularly reads poetry at The Mile High Jazz Band’s poetry and jazz performances in Carson City.

A native of California but devotee of the Nevada high desert, Breeden currently resides in Carson City where she teaches AutoCAD(Computer Aided Drafting) and Art at Carson High School. She received her B.A. from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where she majored in English with a poetry emphasis.

Krista Lukas’s stories and poems appear in The Best American Poetry 2006, Creative Writer’s Handbook, New Poets of the American West, and in literary journals including Margie and The Sun. Her awards include a Nevada Arts Council Literary Arts Fellowship and Sierra Arts Foundation’s Robert Gorrell Award for Literary Achievement. Lukas reads poetry for audiences at bookstores, schools, colleges, and locally for the Mile High Jazz Band’s Jazz and Poetry events.

Lukas was born in Truckee, California and grew up at Lake Tahoe. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from the University of California, San Diego, and earned her K-12 teaching credentials at Sierra Nevada College. She now teaches at Jacks Valley Elementary School in Douglas County.