Join Women & Children First for a virtual celebration of The Hurting Kind with author Ada Limón. Limón will be joined in conversation by Rebecca Lindenberg. More details here!
Events
May 2022
VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public. Central time.
Parnassus Books is pleased to welcome Fábio Zuker to celebrate his new book, The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon: Dispatches from the Brazilian Rainforest, in conversation with the book's translator, Ezra Fitz. Attendees can watch live on either the Parnassus Books Facebook page or the Parnassus Books YouTube channel. After the live talk has ended, the video will remain archived to watch later on both Facebook and YouTube. Details here!
VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public. Central time.
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...
Free and open to the public. Registration required.
Join Prairie Lights for a virtual celebration of The Hurting Kind with author Ada Limón. Limón will be joined in conversation by Jennifer Knox. More details here!
VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public. Central time.
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!
IN-PERSON EVENT.
Join Books Are Magic for an in-store reading, conversation, and book signing with Ada Limón to celebrate her new collection, The Hurting Kind. Limón will be joined by Patricia Smith. Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Masks and proof of vaccination required. The event will also be livestreamed to YouTube. Get your tickets here!
IN-PERSON EVENT + simultaneous livestream. Masks & proof of vaccination required.
Join the New York Public Library on the rooftop terrace of their Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library location for a reading and reception with Ada Limón and Sarah Ruhl, in celebration of Limón's new collection The Hurting Kind. Free and open to the public; registration required!
IN-PERSON EVENT. Free and open to the public.
June 2022
Join Milkweed Editions, the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and The Ruby to celebrate Human Resources, the debut collection of poems by Ryann Stevenson and the 2021 winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Stevenson will be joined in conversation by poet Richie Hofmann. Register here!
VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public | Registration required. Central time.
July 2022
Join Ken Kalfus for a reading and signing at The Toadstool Bookshop in Peterborough, NH, in celebration of his new novel 2 A.M. in Little America. Free and open to the public.
IN-PERSON EVENT. Free and open to the public.