Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Poet David Lee Offers May 27th Reading in Silver City

Siler City, Nevada - The Resident Artist Program in Silver City, Nevada announces poet David Lee's return to Silver City this spring.

He’ll offer another of his extraordinary readings at the Silver City School House at 385 High Street on Saturday, May 27 at 1pm. James Hoggard, the former poet laureate of Texas, writes,“Lee’s poems will make you laugh till your tears make it impossible to see the page.”

Lee, who was named one of the 12 greatest writers to ever emerge from the state by Utah Endowment for the Humanities, and was Utah’s first and longest serving poet laureate, has also been a boxer, pig farmer, seminary student, cotton mill worker, and a baseball player.

His book Last Call was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and his 2016 book Bluebonnets, Firewheels, and Brown-Eyed Susans has been nominated for both a Pulitzer and a National Book Award.

Lee has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has won the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award in Poetry and the Western States Book Award in Poetry. He’s received the Utah Governor’s Award for lifetime achievement in the arts and the Entrada Institute’s Ward Roylance Award, and was also considered as a candidate for Poet Laureate of the United States.

What is the Resident Artist Program? Located in rural northwestern Nevada 3 miles from Virginia City and 29 miles from Lake Tahoe, Silver City is a small community on the Comstock within one of the nation's federally designated historic landmarks.

The Resident Artist Program in Silver City is entering its fourth year. The Program provides a venue for those from other parts of the U.S. and the world to engage with people of the region through the arts. Those creating in the performing, visual, media, design, or literary arts are invited to apply to reside for up to 3 months at McCormick House, a geodesic dome designed in the 1970s by Nevada artist Jim McCormick. In exchange, visiting artists offer public performances, exhibitions, readings, workshops, etc. in Silver City and other northern Nevada communities. The Program is privately funded and directed by Theo McCormick and Quest Lakes.

Resident artists, including musicians, painters, fabricators, poets, photographers, and cultural researchers from New Zealand, Oregon, California, and Nevada have been scheduled through 2018.