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Minneapolis, MN —

03/08/2024

In Person: Saretta Morgan at Milkweed Books, with Douglas Kearney

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Saretta Morgan for a reading from her new poetry book Alt-Nature, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. Saretta will read from Alt-Nature and talk about her book in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Please join us at 6 PM at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the first floor of Open Book, for an unforgettable night of poetry!

About the book

Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the…

Bruce Humes

Bruce Humes is the translator of The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian, as well as the bestseller Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui and other works. He is an American literary translator and critic of Chinese literature, specializing in non-Han Chinese authors.

Chi Zijian

Chi Zijian is the author of The Last Quarter of the Moon, which received the Mao Dun Literary Award, the highest honor for a novelist in China.

Rebecca Spiegel

Rebecca Spiegel teaches writing in Philadelphia, where she lives with her family. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Without Her is her first book.

Chris La Tray

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. La Tray is the Montana Poet Laureate for 2023–2025 and a former bookseller at Fact & Fiction. He writes the weekly newsletter “An Irritable Métis” and lives near Frenchtown, Montana.

Ann Arbor, MI —

02/15/2024

In person: Caroline Harper New appearing at Literati Bookstore

Join Caroline Harper New at Literati Bookstore for a reading and discussion about her collection A History of Half-Birds.

Homer, AK —

05/18/2024

In person: Priyanka Kumar appearing at the Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference

Join Priyanka Kumar at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, where writers from Alaska and beyond come together to create community and learn how to be better writers.

Summer Lake, OR —

05/02/2024

In person: Priyanka Kumar appearing at PLAYA Summer Workshops

Join at PLAYA for this 4-night writing retreat exploring the Poetry of Birding led by best-selling author Priyanka Kumar. Through guided birding excursions to observe migratory birds in the Summer Lake Wildlife Area, bring your observations back to meditative discussions in our workshop circle. Here, participants will integrate birds and poetry, beginning with Seamus Heaney’s “St. Kevin and the Blackbird,” and travel back through the ages to the lone hut of the master of Chinese nature poetry. Create nature poems of your own inspired by local field trips observing spring migration in Summer…

West Tisbury, MA —

01/23/2024 - 01/23/2024

In person: Scott Chaskey appearing at The Agricultural Society of Martha's Vineyard

Join Scott Chaskey for a talk on his book Soil and Spirit, where he will share wisdom from his decades of building community through agriculture on Long Island—including starting the first CSA in New York state!

West Tisbury, MA —

01/24/2024

In person: Scott Chaskey appearing at West Tisbury Library

On Wednesday, January 24, at 4:30pm, at the West Tisbury Library, author Scott Chaskey will read from his newly released book, Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life.

Books will be available for purchase and signing by Bunch of Grapes Bookstore. This event is presented by the MV Agricultural Society, Slough Farm, and the West Tisbury Library. Free and open to the public.

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