Events

Open now through January 2024, The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) debuted its new literary arts gallery, the Steven and Barbara Slaggie Family Gallery, by producing a 2,300 square foot exhibition that taps into the ageless beauty of wonder, presenting three lauded and celebrated books turned exhibition experiences that run concurrently with the Museum’s Flora & Fauna season—a suite of exhibitions and public programs that explore the plants and animals of our mysterious and brilliant world.

The exhibition features original illustrations from three book projects; Mary Casanova’s Wake Up Island (University of Minnesota Press) and Hush, Hush, Forest (University…

Join us for the December entry in our monthly Faculty/Student Reading Series, where we host a local faculty writer from the University of Minnesota’s Creative Writing MFA Program and a student writer, offering a chance for emerging local writers to place their work in conversation with an established writer. For this final reading of the Fall 2023 semester, MFA candidate Jordan Young will be reading with Kathryn Nuernberger, author of The Witch of Eye.

This reading will also feature an exclusive student discount on all purchases in the bookstore, where anyone attending with a valid student ID will receive 10%…

Join author Scott Chaskey in conversation about his book Soil and Spirit.

Join David for his reading from his 2023 collection, Ice for Smartish Pace’s “Hot L” Reading Series. With poet Laura Reece Hogan, author of 2023’s Butterfly Nebula, winner of the Backwaters Press Prize.

Join Scott Chaskey in discussion about his title Soil and Spirit.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at Door County Library for the Write on Door County Reads 2024.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the Indigenous Dialogue Series with Kwantlen Polytechnic University.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Public Lecture on The Honorable Harvest: Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainability.

Monday, April 1, 20246:30 PM
Tuesday, April 2, 20247:30 PM

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for Tanner Talk on Environmental Humanitites.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer, the author of Braiding Sweetgrass, to explore scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants on April 20th at Grewal Hall in downtown Lansing.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Old Forge Library for a Keynote Address & Regional Read.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Terry Todd International Speakers Series of the Kalamazoo Nature Center on Native Knowledge and Western Science.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the Swope Endowed Lecture Series.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the DeCoursey Lecture Series at Trinity University.

Join author Kerri ní Dochartaigh in prioritizing your creativity for 10 days in spring 2025 at the seaside village of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland.

This retreat is led by Ryan Dennis of The Milkhouse Rural Writers Collective; co-organized with NatureCulture/Writing the Land.