How about a little warm-up for Valentine’s Day? How about love poems to partners, children, bees, pigs, words, winter, and Mother Earth? You’ll get all that and more when poet, journalist and memoirist James Lenfestey (A Marriage Book, 2017) stops by the Grand Hand to read his love poems on February 7. Bring your beloved with you…unless your beloved is a pig. Or bees. Beloved children and human partners welcome!

Elizabeth Rush will speak at the Chautauqua Institute during the third week of its 2019 Season, “A Planet in Balance: A Week Partnership with National Geographic Society.”

Milkweed Books returns to our Winter Market table inside the Mill City Museum!

The National Audubon Society will honor J. Drew Lanham with the Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership for his tireless advocacy to protect birds and build a new generation of conservation leaders. He will be presented with one of Audubon’s top conservation awards at its annual gala in New York City on February 7, 2019.

Poet and zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Sea Summit, 2016) delivers the keynote at Augusta University’s Writers Weekend, their annual spring creative writing conference. Presenters at the conference include writer and director Whit Stillman, Cinelle Barnes, Eric Smith, Laura Leigh Morris, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, and Frank Iodice.

Milkweed Books returns to our Winter Market table inside the Mill City Museum!

Join 702WI for the launch of Karen Babine’s new memoir All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer. The event features a reading by Karen and an introduction and Q&A by author and metalsmith Sara Dahmen. A book signing will follow.

Join Karen Babine in Milwaukee as she reads from her book All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer at Boswell Books.

Join Karen Babine in Evanston as she reads from her book All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer at Bookends & Beginnings.

Karen Babine will read from her book All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer at Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City.