Join us for a two-part poetry workshop series with Max Stone at Holland on May 9th and 16th from 12-2pm. Fall (back) in love with writing through prompts and exercises that will sharpen your writing tools and help you develop creative routines that work for you! All experience levels are welcome, get tix at hollandreno.org/workshops
The Landline Poetry Series reading at The Library is Open exhibition reception at The Depot Gallery on Saturday was so beautiful and uplifting 💕🌸 ☀️ perfect way to celebrate the opening of this lovely exhibition and National Poetry Month 🩵 I’m so grateful to Meg and Anna @press_yess for putting this together and to my readers Elisa, Laura, Delaney, and Drew 🖤 as Drew said at the reading: Landline forever !!!!!
The exhibition will be up until May 9th so there’s still time to see it! 📚✨
Got some exciting events coming up this spring!!
🤓 Teaching a class in the TMCC EPIC program Experiments in Poetry every Tuesday 6-8 pm from 4/7 - 5/5
☎️ Doing a Landline reading as part of The Library is Open exhibition reception at 3 pm at The Depot Gallery in Sparks. The exhibition is organized by the amazing artist duo @press_yess and I’m honored to have some artwork in the show as well 🩵
🌼 Reading in the Mountain Music Parlor Reading Series on 4/23 at 6:30 pm with @daniputney1 and @sidewayseightprojects for National Poetry Month
✏️ Teaching a two-part poetry workshop at The Holland Project called Begin Anywhere on 5/9 and 5/16 from 12-2 pm.
And bonus check out my latest article for @swcontemporary about the exhibition Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art.
an Interview with Artists Rora Blue & Max Stone of the 2026 RestFest Film Festival program: Now on Substack.
🎧 *Includes voiceover* 🎧
❤️📹 In this interview, learn about their filmmaking process, their collaboration as trans men at different points in their transitions, how they made artmaking accessible, and more.
🗓️ Rora Blue & Max Stone’s video artwork, “Man in the Moon” will be having its online premiere as part of the 2026 RestFest Film Festival program “Mid-Air / Suspended”. It’ll be streaming for the entire month of February.
📹🎞️ About the film:
Man in the Moon is a collaboration between Max Stone and Rora Blue. The piece originated as a poem written by Max Stone and was later visually interpreted by Rora Blue. Through this collaboration, both artists reflect on their experiences of being transgender men at different points in their transition. Man in the Moon explores what it means to simultaneously look forward and backward on a journey toward finding a more true self.
ID for slide 1 is below with the rest of the slides in the comments & all are in the alt-text:
A still image from “Man in the Moon” shows shallow water with soft ripples, over a round mirror. Someone is looking into it, but their image is abstracted by the water’s movement. On this image, there is a white rectangle with a quote from the interview: “Being transgender and disabled can be isolating a lot of times. It felt special to not have to explain anything to Max and to have that immediate connection between us.” Beneath the quote is the information about the interview: “RestFest Film Festival, Meet the 2026 Filmmakers: an interview with Rora Blue & Max Stone // RESTFEST.SUBSTACK.COM”
At the bottom of this image, there is black text on a white rectangle: “stream Rora Blue & Max Stone’s video artwork: “Man in the Moon” @ RestFest Film Festival 2026: February 1-28”.
#ArtistFeature #ArtistInterview #VideoArt
Catch me at @abbyshighway40 next Saturday, January 24th at 6 pm for the first @landlinepoetryseries reading of 2026 🎱 Sara Larsen and Ken Walker made a special duo chapbook that will be available as well as some cool new merch ☎️ I hope to see you there 🫶
Telephone pole and community board communication is IN 2026 📞
See you at Abby’s Hwy 40 on January 24th at 6 pm for the first Landline Poetry Series reading of 2026 ✨
Landline is back on Sunday. October 12 at 5 pm 🧡🖤🧡 Super excited to have Thomas Dunn, an amazing poet I met at Community of Writers in 2023, read!! See you there ☎️
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.” -Walt Whitman
Snoopy is gonna be at Abby’s Hwy 40 tomorrow at 6:30 pm for the @landlinepoetryseries reading tomorrow he might even read some poetry who knows 👀
I can’t believe you guys forgot my half birthday :(( likeee I’m 29 1/2 years old today: 7/29/25 it’s a big deal ‼️
Jk lol 😝 anyways slide 1 is my favorite soccer picture of me ⚽️ 🥅 I was on the Red Rockets 🚀 age 8 ❤️
I always think of myself as age 8 or 9 that’s when I felt most like myself 🌟 And shit gets real when you turn 10. Thank god I’m almost 30 IYKYK 🪐
2nd slide is the first soccer team I was on the Yellow Eagles 🦅 lmao i was so mad about everything back then 🤣🫶
There’s also some sky 🌅 pics that speak for themselves, a baby bunny drawing I did of my friend Alexey’s bunny (I think his name is Earl ?!)🐰 and me in my puzzle master t-shirt probably having a that’s so Raven vision 🧩🧐
PS I’m having a Landline poetry reading on Friday Aug 1st at 6:30 pm so like 3 days from now (see Lost Gator slide) you should come if you’re in Reno and free it will be really fun and mean a lot to me and the incredible @graysonwritespoems who is promoting his chapbook from @foglifterpress 💛 Poetry is cool and fun and exciting so come on down it’s summertime!! 🌞 See you at Abby’s Highway 40 🎱
PS PS it’s my twin bro Julian’s half bday too 💞 he’s about to graduate with his MBA !! (Masters in Business Administration 😎) thank god one of us understands money lol 😬💰the last slide is of us by two big cacti in Arizona where he happens to live now 🌵🌵 I can’t wait to see him in like a week 💗
