Open Book Performance Hall
1011 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
This event is free and open to the public. RSVPa are required. You can RSVP here. This event is part of The Great Northern Festival.
Join us for a special book launch event in celebration of A Darker Wilderness—a vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory featuring a constellation of luminary writers. Featuring live readings from the book’s contributors Michael Kleber-Diggs, katie robinson, and Tia-Simone Gardner, and a conversation to follow.
Join us at 6:00 PM at Milkweed Books located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with the authors in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!
Erin Sharkey
Erin Sharkey is a writer, arts and abolition organizer, cultural worker, and film producer based in Minneapolis.
Michael Kleber-Diggs
Michael Kleber-Diggs’s debut collection of poems, Worldly Things, won the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Michael teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.
A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory.