Capital City Arts Initiative

On Thursday, October 13, 2011, at the Carson City Library, 900 North Roop Street, Carson City NV, CCAI presents a poetry reading by Gailmarie Pahmeier at 7 pm. Gailmarie will also conduct a writing workshop at the Library that same day, from 4 pm – 5 pm, all free and open to the public.

Gailmarie Pahmeier has been a Nevadan for 30 years. She teaches creative writing and contemporary literature at the University of Nevada, where she has been honored with the Alan Bible Teaching Excellence Award and the University Distinguished Teacher Award.

Gailmarie’s work has been widely published in literary journals and anthologies, including Booth, Passager, Interim, Mudfish, New Poets of the American West (for which she won the Editor’s Choice Award), Literary Nevada, and the Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry. Her poetry collection includes The House on Breakaheart Road, and two chapbooks from Black Rock Press. Her recent chapbook, Shake It and It Snows, won the 2009 Coal Hill Chapbook Award; poems from this collection were nominated for Pushcart Prizes. Her literary awards include a Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship and two Artists Fellowships from the Nevada Arts Council. In 2007, she received the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

“I’ve read my work locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. I’m particularly interested in conducting workshops and giving readings in “under-served” communities,wherever they might be or think they are. I love Nevada, love getting out and into our various communities. My material comes from interactions and observations I make while out on the road, and I learn as much or more from community workshop participants as they might learn from me.”

The Capital City Arts Initiative is an artist-centered organization committed to the encouragement and support of artists and the arts and culture of Carson City and the surrounding region. The Initiative is committed to community building for the area’s diverse adult and youth populations through art projects and exhibitions, live events, arts education programs, artist residencies, and its online presence. CCAI is funded, in part, by the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, Carson City Office of Business Development; Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; U.S. Bancorp Foundation; Nevada Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities; John and Grace Nauman Foundation; Ruckus Visual Arts (Asa Gilmore); CCAI Business Leaders: Allison, MacKenzie, Pavlakis, Wright & Fagan, Data Graphics; and Pro-Form Labs.