Join The Great Northern Festival in partnership with Milkweed Editions for a special Open Steam sauna reading with poets Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm. The reading will take place in our event sauna, where you’re welcome to come and go at your leisure. Step inside and enjoy the reading in the soothing heat, and then cool off outside or check out one of our other saunas. Please note that sauna participants must be 13+ years of age at the time of their sauna experience. Attendees under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

Join Milkweed Editions, Grist, and The Great Northern Festival for “Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions,” a virtual session exploring the themes of the recent Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future. Featuring Grist editor Tory Stephens in conversation with Metamorphosis contributors Sanjana Sakar and Louis Evans.

Join Milkweed Books as we present poet KIMIKO HAHN to celebrate her newest collection, The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. She will be joined by torrin a. greathouse and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood…

Join us at Milkweed Books to hear Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger read, discuss science writing and finding inspiration from museum collections. Students from the workshop will be invited–but not required–to share their writing at the open mic after the reading and conversation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MARLENE ZUK is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the evolution of animal sexual behavior and animal communication. The author of Paleofantasy and Sex on Six Legs, among other works, her latest book is Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead…

Milkweed Presents Ellen Wayland-Smith, author of The Science of Last Things, in Minneapolis to read from her collection and join in conversation with author Colin Hamilton, followed by a social hour with refreshments.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Colin Hamilton has helped create a library, a center for dance, affordable…

Join Print: A Bookstore for a reading and book launch of Sarah V. Schweig’s The Ocean in the Next Room with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.

Join Fabulist Magazine at Adobe Books for “Hungry Gods: Readings Against our Authoritarian Moment,” a book release for Heather Bourbeau that will feature T.K. Rex alongside Duane Horton and Nick Mamatas. A short writer panel on the theme with an audience Q&A will follow the readings.

Join Elliot Bay Books for a reading with Rosalie Moffett, alongside local poet and friend of the store Luther Hughes.