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SUMMARY:Nevada in Our Teeth: Jennifer Battisti and Andrew Romanelli
LOCATION:Bob & Alison Kasner Academic Building\, Auditorium
DESCRIPTION:Nevada in Our Teeth\, Crossing Highway 50: A Poet’s Guide to th
 e Loneliest Road in America\nJoin us on Thursday\, November 19th at 6 pm i
 n the auditorium of the Kasner Academic Building for a conversation with a
 uthors Jennifer Battisti and Andrew Romanelli.\n\nLas Vegas born poets\, c
 urious about the idea of loneliness in response to traveling across and ex
 ploring the “Loneliest Road in America\, Nevada’s Highway 50. Life Magazin
 e gave the 287 mile stretch the moniker “The Loneliest Road in America in 
 a 1986 article that claimed the area offered no attractions or points of i
 nterest\, had little services along the way\, and advised travelers to pos
 sess “survival skills.” The poets’ work considers how our perceptions of l
 oneliness may have changed. Who decides a point of interest\, and can the 
 landscape alone offer enough of an attraction to make the trek worth it? \
 n \nThis event is presented by Nevada Humanities\, the Marydean Martin Wri
 ters’ Project\, and the City of Henderson. The Marydean Martin Writers’ Pr
 oject is a program of the Office for the Arts at Nevada State University. 
 For more information about our arts programming\, visit our webpage and fo
 llow us on Instagram\, Facebook\, and X at @NevadaStateArts. For questions
  about this event\, contact the Office for the Arts at TheArts@nevadastate
 .edu or 702.992.2380.\n \nThursday\, November 19\, 2026\nReception: 6:00 P
 M\nPresentation: 6:30 – 7:30 PM\n \nNevada State University\nBob & Alison 
 Kasner Academic Building\nKAB Auditorium\n1300 Nevada State Drive\nHenders
 on\, NV 89002\nhttps://nevadastate.edu/thearts/\n \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHORS
 \n\nJennifer Battisti is a lifelong Nevadan. Her work has been anthologize
 d in Legs of Tumbleweed\, Wings of Lace\, Sagebrush and Sandstone\, and Wh
 ere We Live\, an anthology of writing and art in response to the October 1
 st tragedy. Her worked has also appeared in The Desert Companion\, Witness
 \, Brevity\, Western Humanities Review\, Split Lip\, Wildsam Travel Guide\
 , Las Vegas Writes\, 300 Days of Sun and elsewhere. She is currently a Tea
 ching Artist for the Nevada Arts Council and has also been a Teaching Arti
 st for the Alzheimer’s Poetry Project in Clark County. She was voted best 
 local poet by the Desert Companion in 2018 and 2021. Her work has been on 
 display in exhibits for Nevada Humanities. Her first chapbook\, Echo Bay w
 as released in 2018 and her full-length manuscript\, Off Boulder Highway w
 as released in 2021 (Tolsun Books). Her most recent work was a collaborati
 on with Andrew Romanelli on a travel guide of poetry about the Loneliest R
 oad in America titled: Nevada in Our Teeth\, Crossing Highway 50. Visit he
 r at: jenniferbattisti1977@gmail.com\n\nBorn and raised in Las Vegas\, And
 rew Romanelli is an educator and serves as creative director of Devoid Mag
 azine. His first poetry collection Rotgut was published by Zeitgeist Press
  and he has since published 3 poetry chapbooks: Supermarket Poems\, One Mo
 re Night\, and 12 Jennys. His latest book\, in collaboration with Jennifer
  Battisti\, is called: Nevada in Our Teeth Crossing Highway 50. Visit him 
 at andrewromanelli.com\n\nDetails: https://vegaslocalshq.com/events/hender
 son/nevada-in-our-teeth-jennifer-battisti-and-andrew-romanelli-2026-11-19-
 a48f2736
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