Latif Askia Ba

Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal’s sixty-first issue.

Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: Zoë Schlanger Book Launch at Milkweed Books

Come join Milkweed as we welcome Zoë Schlanger to Minneapolis to launch her new book, The Light Eaters: How Unseen Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. Zoë will be joined in conversaton by Ranae Hanson, author of Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress, winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award.

 

About the book

What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest…