Heartland Fall Forum
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Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT
Helen Macdonald and Robin Wall Kimmerer offer us considerable gifts of language and learning. Their beloved books have been lauded as necessary touchstones for themes celebrating the natural world.
Kimmerer is a plant ecologist, writer, bryologist, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. To read Braiding Sweetgrass is to be in spiritual communion with the plant kingdom. This fall, Braiding Sweetgrass will be released as a lush special edition hardcover, honoring the beautiful and even sacred experience it has brought to countless readers.
Macdonald is a historian, philosopher, poet, and illustrator. H Is for Hawk took us into a private world where the heart is as feral as a hawk, and showed us how taming a headstrong goshawk can also tame the tensions of human grief. Her forthcoming Vesper Flights looks outward, giving us important and insightful essays about wildlife and what it teaches us about humanity.
What Helen Macdonald teaches us about animals, Robin Wall Kimmerer teaches us about plants. Together, they create a powerful statement about the interconnectivity of life on this planet. Join as we discover what we can learn from their new books in a time when the human experience has become increasingly challenging.
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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of the New York Times bestselling collection of essays Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons.