Chicago, IL —
John James at Myopic Books
Join Myopic Books for a reading by John James (The Milk Hours. 2019) and Hugh Schwartzberg.
Providence, RI —
John James at Riffraff
Join Riffraff for a reading by John James, author of The Milk Hours (2019).
Chicago, IL —
John McCarthy at Hungry Brain
Join Hungry Brain for their monthly reading series: Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & Cocktails. The July event will feature John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses, 2019).
Minneapolis, MN —
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Minnesota Book Awards: Voices in Poetry, feat. Claire Wahmanholm
Join the Minnesota Book Awards for a pop-up event during The Loft’s Wordplay. 2019 Kay Sexton Award Honoree and author David Mura will moderate a conversation and reading with three of this year’s poetry finalists: Mary Moore Easter, Claire Wahmanholm (Wilder, 2018), and Chaun Webster.
New Haven, CT —
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"A Blue Dark" Opening Reception with Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Join The Gallery Upstairs at the Institute Library for the opening reception of A Blue Dark. In this exhibition, Connecticut-based visual artist Fritz Horstman collaborates with Paris-based poet, translator, and Zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Sea Summit, 2016) to explore a cross-genre range of textual/non-textual responses to the presence of a luminous dark.
Bronx, NY —
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Sprout Lands: William Bryant Logan with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join the New York Botaincal Garden for a lecture by William Bryant Logan, author of Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees, followed by a converstaion with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass (2014).
Gregory Orr
Gregory Orr is the author of more than ten collections of poems, including, most recently, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write, and several volumes of essays, criticism and memoir. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for The Blessing.
Minneapolis, MN —
"Popol Vuh · Popol Vuh: A Coursed Evening of Food & Story" with Michael Bazzett
“Popol Vuh · Popol Vuh” is a coursed dinner that pairs excerpts of The Popol Vuh, the story, with dishes created by Executive Chef Jose Alarcon. This event will feature local poet Michael Bazzett and his translation of the ancient Mayan creation epic.
Tim Robinson
A cartographer and writer, Tim Robinson was the author of, most recently, the Connemara trilogy, which Robert Macfarlane has called “one of the most remarkable nonfiction projects undertaken in English.” He was twice recipient of the Irish Book Award.
Su Hwang
Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega, which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Born in Seoul, Korea, she was raised in New York then called the Bay Area home before transplanting to the Midwest, where she received her MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of the inaugural Jerome Hill Fellowship in Literature, among other honors, she is a teaching artist with the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and is the cofounder, with poet Sun Yung Shin, of Poetry Asylum. Su Hwang currently lives in Minneapolis.