Tune in for the final Dear America Virtual Town Hall, sponsored by Terrain.org and Trinity University Press, featuring readings and discussion by Sherwin Bitsui, Fenton Johnson, Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Debra Marquart, and facilitated by Terrain.org editor-in-chief Simmons Buntin. Learn more here.
Woodland Pattern Book Center hosts a reading with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders, Ross Gay, and Kelsey Marie Harris. Register here.
Ahead of their Saturday reading, authors and gardeners Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ross Gay, and Kelsey Marie Harris will join Venice Williams, the founder of Alice’s Garden in Milwaukee, to discuss the intersections between creative collaboration, gardening, poetry, social justice, and well-being. Woodland Pattern executive director Jenny Gropp will moderate, and the conversation will open to a Q & A toward the program’s end. Register here.
We are thrilled to announce that Devon Walker-Figueroa has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2020. Her manuscript Philomath was selected by Milkweed poet Sally Keith and will be published in September 2021. In addition to publication, Walker-Figueroa will receive $10,000.
Devon Walker-Figueroa is a writer, editor, and erstwhile professional ballet dancer who grew up in Kings Valley (a ghost town in the Oregon Coast Range). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the 2018 recipient of New England Review’s Emerging Writer Award, Walker-Figueroa has published poems in such journals as the American Poetry Review, …
This year’s Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture at Iowa State University will be given by J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place. Free and open to the public: details here.
Wisconsin Association for Environmental Education’s annual conference will feature a keynote speech from Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass.
Join AASHE’s annual conference for Robin Wall Kimmerer’s keynote speech. Robin will offer reflections and an indigenous perspective on the meanings of a just transition.
Join MSU for a presentation from Dr. Robin Kimmerer: “Listening to Indigenous Knowledge as Colleges and Universities: Building a Foundation.” Register here.
UCSB Multicultural Center’s Diversity Lecture Series Presents: Robin Wall Kimmerer. Zoom link here.
