Join Brian Laidlaw at the Twin Cities Book Festival! The Adaptation Station is a magical switchyard where poems turn into songs. Bring an old favorite poem (or better yet, a new favorite poem from a book you just bought at the TCBF!) and poet-songwriter Brian Laidlaw will songify the text and set it to music on the fly. More details here!
Join Kazim Ali at the Twin Cities Book Festival for a discussion of his new books The Citadel of Whispers and Northern Light. More details here!
Join torrin a. greathouse at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” greathouse will be speaking about her poetry collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound during the fourth session of the day (2 — 2:45 PM). More details here!
Join Michael Bazzett at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” Bazzett will be speaking about his poetry collection The Echo Chamber during the third session of the day (1 — 1:45 PM). More details here!
Join Diane Wilson at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” Wilson will be speaking about her novel The Seed Keeper during the first session of the day (11 — 11:45 AM). More details here!
Join National Poetry Series winners Devon Walker-Figueroa and Teresa K. Miller for a virtual poetry reading hosted by Left Bank Books. More details here!
Join Friends of the Hennepin County Library for a virtual “Talk of the Stacks” event with Margaret Renkl, author of Graceland, At Last. Margaret will be interviewed by award-winning journalist Marianne Combs. Register here!
Join Michael Bazzett for a virtual celebration of The Echo Chamber, hosted by Subtext Bookstore. Bazzett will be joined by fellow poets Maggie Smith and Matthew Olzmann. Register here!
We are thrilled to announce that Noʻu Revilla has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2021. Her manuscript Ask the Brindled was selected by Milkweed poet Rick Barot and will be published in August 2022. In addition to publication, Revilla will receive $10,000.
Noʻu Revilla is an ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) queer poet and educator. Born and raised in Waiʻehu on the island of Maui, she currently lives and loves in the valley of Pālolo on the island of Oʻahu. Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in Poetry, Literary Hub, Anomaly, Beloit…
Noʻu Revilla is the author of Ask the Brindled. She is an ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) queer poet and educator.
