Pantages Theatre
710 Hennepin Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55403
United States
This is a ticketed in-person event.
Presales (for members, join for access) is June 18-19, 2025; on sale for all June 20, 2025.
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Join 24th US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and the internationally bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, for an unforgettable evening at the historic Pantages Theatre. These two visionary writers and thinkers, in conversation for the first time, are both known for their impact in literature and their timely ability to offer critical insights into resiliency, reciprocity, and what it means to be human in the natural world. Ken Lucero, Trust for Public Land’s Tribal and Indigenous Lands Director, will introduce the conversation. This connective conversation will be an offering to those looking for ways to navigate through our times.
This is a ticketed in-person event. Get tickets here.
Presale tickets available June 18-19 for Milkweed members (join here for presales access code)
Tickets go on sale to the general public on June 20.
Robin Wall Kimmerer has become one of the most vital voices of our time regarding environmental stewardship. Her beloved and groundbreaking book Braiding Sweetgrass has sold over 2 million copies and merges scientific research with the ancestral knowledge of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, offering transformative insights into how we can all have better, more reciprocal relationships with the natural world—sustaining it and each other. Since the publication of Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer has been widely celebrated, reviewed frequently in The New York Times, named a Time magazine Most Influential Person of the Year, and received many awards, including a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship.
Ada Limón just concluded her second term as US Poet Laureate. In 2023 she received a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship. And last year, her poem “In Praise of Mystery” was engraved in her own handwriting on NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, which was launched to the second moon of Jupiter in October 2024 (expected to arrive in 2030). Limón is one of the most decorated poets working today: a winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Time magazine Woman of the Year; and a finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize.
This event is presented by Milkweed Editions, Trust for Public Land, and Hennepin Arts.
Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher incorporated as a nonprofit in order to fulfill its mission. Milkweed builds engaged communities around the transformative literature they publish through events like this one. To learn more and join Milkweed’s community of sustaining supporters, visit milkweed.org.
Trust for Public Land (TPL) is a national nonprofit that works to connect everyone to the benefits and joys of the outdoors. As a leader in equitable access to the outdoors, TPL works with communities to create parks and protect public land where they are needed most. Since 1972, TPL has protected more than 4 million acres of public land, created more than 5,504 parks, trails, schoolyards, and iconic outdoor places, and raised $110 billion in public funding for parks and public lands, and connected nearly 10 million people to the outdoors. To learn more, visit tpl.org.
Hennepin Arts is a non-profit that creates positive change through the arts by bringing together people, businesses and organizations to create and enjoy cultural experiences. To lern more, visit hennepinarts.org.
Thank you to all of our 2025 Milkweed Editions Event Sponsors:
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.
Ada Limón
Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate as well as the author of The Hurting Kind and five other collections of poems.
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.
Drawing from six previously published books—including widely acclaimed collections The Hurting Kind, The Carrying, and Bright Dead Things—as well as vibrant new work, Startlement exalts the mysterious. With a tender curiosity, Ada Limón wades into potent unknowns—the strangeness of our brief human lives, the ever-changing nature of the universe—and emerges each time with new revelations about our place in the world.
A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Big Reads Selection
A 2024 NPR “Books We Love” Selection
Published in association with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate of the United States, a singular collection of fifty poems reflecting on our relationship to the natural world by our most celebrated contemporary writers.
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to find something that is “disorderly, and marvelous, and ours.”
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón, an extraordinary collection—at once urbane and earthy—that navigates the thoroughfares and tributaries of human nature.