The Natural History Institute hosts J. Drew Lanham in conversation with Natural History Institute Executive Director Tom Fleischner to discuss nature and literature. This event will be presented virtually at 7:00pm MST.
Kundiman and Cave Canem will host Aimee Nezhukumatathil to celebrate the publication of World of Wonders. Aimee will be joined by author and friend Ross Gay. This event will be presented virtually at 6:00pm ET.
Join Milkweed Editions and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop to celebrate the publication day of World of Wonders with author Aimee Nezhukumatathil and special guests Patrick Rosal, Joseph Legaspi, Sarah Gambito, Oliver de la Paz, and Jon Pineda. This event will be presented virtually at 7:00pm CT on Zoom and Facebook Live.
Diane Wilson (Dakota) is the author of The Seed Keeper, as well as a memoir, Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past, and a nonfiction book, Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life. She is the executive director for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, a national coalition of tribes and organizations working to create sovereign food systems for Native people. She is a Mdewakanton descendent, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation, and lives in Shafer, Minnesota.
Dara McAnulty is the author Diary of a Young Naturalist. He is the recipient of the Wainwright Prize for nature writing. Dara lives with his mum, dad, brother Lorcan, sister Bláthnaid and rescue greyhound Rosie in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Heartland Fall Forum, the premiere conference for independent booksellers in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, hosts a conversation between Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass) and Helen Macdonald (Vesper Flights). This event will be presented virtually on Crowdcast at 7:00pm CST.
Join Old Firehouse Books for the virtual launch of Dan Beachy-Quick’s Stone-Garland! Dan will be joined by poet H. L. Hix. This event will be presented virtually at 6:00pm MT. Register here.
Parnassus Books hosts Michael Taylor in conversation with Margaret Renkl to discuss Taylor’s new book Hidden Nature: Wild Southern Caves. This event will be presented virtually at 3:00pm CT.
Brazos Bookstore hosts Benjamin Garcia in conversation with Kazim Ali and Dana Levin to celebrate the launch of Thrown in the Throat. This event will be presented virtually at 7:00pm CT.
As part of Kundiman’s Summer Sessions, Kundiman will be hosting Aimee Nezhukumatathil to teach a hybrid generative class for writers called “The Edge of the Sea is a Strange & Beautiful Place: Hybrid Poetry & Prose Experiments.” The class will interrogate and investigate the “strange and beautiful place” of genre-blurring work. The class will meet over Zoom on Saturday, August 1st, from 2:00 PM–5:00 PM ET, and is open to all writers who are BIPOC. Scholarships are available. Visit the website for more information on the class and how to register.
