Name: Whip Law
Start: 2025-02-01T13:00:00-0800
End: 2025-02-01T14:00:00-0800

The 40th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering—Be the Poem. Be the Song.
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Saturday February 1, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST

Elko Convention Center - Silver Room

Since about 2017, downtown Reno, Nevada, has been punctuated with the small, supersonic cracks of homemade bullwhips. Join radiomaker Fil Corbitt for a live audio podcast presentation digging into this phenomenon, and what happened when the city moved to ban whips in downtown Reno. Originally aired on Fil’s podcast The Wind, and nationally on Snap Judgement, “Whip Law” dives into ideas of craft, community, and homelessness through a western noir search for Reno's master whip maker.

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Fil Corbitt

A few years ago, radiomaker Fil Corbitt found a handsaw in the mountains and built a small desk out in the woods. High in the Sierra Nevada, flanked by an aspen grove and a lodgepole pine stand, this is where Fil makes The Wind—a critically acclaimed podcast that investigates our... Read More →

Saturday February 1, 2025 1:00pm - 2:00pm PST
Elko Convention Center - Silver Room

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40th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Fil Corbitt

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