Status Updates From Nevada

The history behind Mildred Breedlove’s commission to write this centennial poem makes the reading much more interesting. As a poet laureate appointed by the governor in 1957, you would think she understood her job was to celebrate, commentate, and praise the state of Nevada. Instead, she started out in the first section describing the land as aggrieved, with little worth, and much to deplore. What? Haha!