The Jackrabbit Reading Series

This is a poetry-in-motion connecting artists and audiences to the natural world. The rabbit goes often to places where human development collides with natural landscapes, and this becomes part of the art. Like a poem, the reading series proposes a new logic. The logic is outside of the Industrial Order. The reading series is a celebration of Life and a resistance to that which destroys Life.

Audience at Jackrabbit Poetry Reading

Michael Rudolph performs original composition

First gathering in 2020, before Yellow Pine fence installed

Campfire at Rabbit Camp

Claire Vaye Watkins reads original work on planned Purple Sage solar site, next to Yellow Pine

Claudia Keelan reads original poetry on planned Purple Sage solar site

Yellow Pine Mizpah, to honor the land

Building the Yellow Pine Mizpah on planned Purple Sage solar site

Jarret Keene reads original poetry outside Yellow Pine Solar

Jackrabbit poetry gathering

Jackrabbit poetry gathering

Matthew Leivas speaking on Nuwuvi Salt Songs, Yellow Pine panels installed in background

Yellow Pine Mizpah dedication poem

Mizpah lighting up the night

Matthew Leivas, Chemehuevi Elder, speaks outside Yellow Pine Solar, September 2022

Heather Lang-Cassera, Clark County poet laureate emeritus, reads outside Yellow Pine Solar, September 2022

Poet and UNLV professor Andy Nicholson reads outside Yellow Pine Solar, February 2020

Susan Sorrells of Shoshone Village speaks in protest of industrial solar, September 2022