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.
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 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.
“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.
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 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.
Join Buzz Cafe for the Traveling Mollys Literary Open Mic and Reading Series, featuring John McCarthy.
On the heels of relaunching our internship program as a paid program, we’re excited to now announce the launch of the Milkweed Fellowship, a paid, 1–2 year immersion program designed to offer a comprehensive experience in book publishing for individuals who may not otherwise have access or means to pursue a career in the industry.
Join Two Dollar Radio HQ for a reading with Grady Chambers (North American Stadiums, 2018), Kathy Fagan (Sycamore, 2017), Maggie Smith, and Ann Townsend.
Darrel J. McLeod will talk about his memoir Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age.
