The Squaw Valley Community of Writers brings an Extraordinary Evening of Poetry to Squaw Valley on July 21. The night will consist of a poetry reading by the five award-winning staff poets: Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Cathy Park Hong, Major Jackson and Sharon Olds.

The Squaw Valley Community of Writers has been considered among the country’s most renowned literary conferences, along with the Sewanee and the Bread Loaf writers conferences. The literary troupe has three genres of workshops every year: one for screenwriters, one for fiction, nonfiction and memoirs, and one for poetry.

This year’s poetry workshop in Squaw Valley are July 16-23. The 60 participating poets will write one poem every day in a boot-camp-style regimen while working with staff poets. The Community of Writers’ renowned fiction and screenwriting workshops will convene in August.

The July 21 poetry night begins at 8pm at Bar One in Olympic House at Squaw.

The cost is $15 general, $10 students.

For more information about the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and the annual writing conferences, go online.