To commemorate the International Year of Indigenous Languages and the US publication of his book, please join the Canadian Consulate & Permanent Mission to the UN for a reading, conversation and reception with Darrel J. McLeod, author of the Governor General’s Award-winning memoir, Mamaskatch.
Poet John James (The Milk Hours, 2019) will read in the Marc Jacobs Reading Room.
Kristen Case is a poet and scholar. She is the author of American Pragmatism and Poetic Practice: Crosscurrents from Emerson to Susan Howe and three books of poetry, most recently, Daphne.
Alexandra Manglis is a coeditor of 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. She is also a writer and and cofounder of the experimental poetry magazine Wave Composition. Her work has appeared in The Millions, the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Strange Horizons. She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writers Workshop and holds a DPhil in English from the University of Oxford. She lives in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Join Myopic Books for a reading by John James (The Milk Hours. 2019) and Hugh Schwartzberg.
Join Riffraff for a reading by John James, author of The Milk Hours (2019).
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).
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.
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.
