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 Fjords of his ancestral Iceland...

Please join The Poetry Project and Unrestricted Interest in celebrating Hannah Emerson's debut collection of poems, The Kissing of Kissing. Emerson, together with Farnoosh Fathi and Tyler Rai, will use language, movement, and performance to explore the abundance of interconnectivity, the ever-present light, teaching us how to resource-share like trees so that we might all grow together. Learn more here!