Santa Fe, NM —

First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100: Priyanka Kumar at Garcia Street Books, with Elizabeth Hightower Allen, Pam Houston, & Renata Golden

Join Garcia Street Books for a reading and conversation on First & Wildest: The Gila Wilderness at 100. Editor Elizabeth Hightower Allen will be joined by Torrey House Publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen; contributors Eve West Bessier, Priyanka Kumar, Pam Houston, Renata Golden; and the WildEarth Guardians who are working to protect the Gila Wilderness. RSVP here!

Priyanka Kumar

Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds. Her essays and criticism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Huffington Post, and High Country News.

The Windows of Brimnes: An American in Iceland
Minneapolis, MN —

Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death

Join friends and colleagues of the late acclaimed poet Bill Holm as they give the world premiere of Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death, a musical setting of his namesake poem composed by Minnesota native Martha Helen Schmidt. The event will also feature select readings from Holm’s literary oeuvre by Milkweed Editions founder, Emilie Buchwald, among others, and will feature internationally recognized musicians: Pianist Dr, Daniel Rieppel and Lyric Baritone, Ryan Hugh Ross. Register here!

Bill Holm was the embodiment of the spirit of Minnesota. His love of the windswept prairie, the glacial…