Authors
From Conversations with Birds to dialogues on the world stage
When Priyanka Kumar began writing her debut memoir, Conversations with Birds, she had a profound realization. Since the dawn of the Information Age, modern Americans have struggled to find fulfillment in their lives more than ever before—but to Kumar, the solution to this problem was surprisingly simple, and could be found in a single word. “We’re at a crossroads in the world,” Kumar says. “Our lives have become fragmented in so many ways by all these devices that we’re basically living inside of now. But there’s something in us that’s very human and wants to break open, that remembers…
Lansing, MI —
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In person: Robin Wall Kimmerer appearing at Michigan State University Science Festival
Join Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, to explore scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants on April 20th at Grewal Hall in downtown Lansing.
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Virtual: Mikeas Sánchez, Wendy Call, and Shook appearing with Tulsa Artist Fellowship
Join via Zoom on Wednesday, December 6 at 2 pm CT for a multilingual conversation and reading with Zoque poet Mikeas Sánchez, and translators Wendy Call and Shook, the creative team behind How to be a Good Savage and Other Poems. Hosted by Awardee Arthur Malcolm Dixon.
LALTulsa is a reading and conversation series with the translators and authors who bring Latin American literature to life in English, hosted by Arthur Malcolm Dixon, Tulsa Artist Fellow and Managing Editor of Latin American Literature Today.
Authors / Events
The power of music and verse with stuttering poet JJJJJerome Ellis
“A stutter is an heirloom—something precious, that should be cherished.”
JJJJJerome Ellis inherited his stutter from his mother, who also stutters. They don’t speak often of their shared inheritance but she is supportive of his work. He sees his stutter as an heirloom and his teacher—both in language and in music. He has learned to gracefully accept and even anticipate how it informs his artistic processes of speaking and performing. In his new book, Aster of Ceremonies, he creates a world that blooms backward, reimagining what it means for Black and disabled people to have taken, and to continue…
County Clare, —
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In person: Kerri ní Dochartaigh appearing at Nature Culture’s Ireland retreat
Join author Kerri ní Dochartaigh in prioritizing your creativity for ten days in spring 2025 at the seaside village of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland.
This retreat is led by Ryan Dennis of The Milkhouse Rural Writers Collective; co-organized with NatureCulture/Writing the Land.
Stockholm, —
In person: Ada Limón appearing at Kulturhuset stadsteatern
Join Ada Limón in conversation with Jenny Tunedal. One of America’s most noted poets visits the International Writers’ Stage. Ada Limón’s poetry collection Bärandet, which is now being published in Swedish translation.
Scottsdale, AZ —
In person: Ada Limón appearing at Center for Humanities in Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona
Join the Center for Humanities in Medicine at Mayo Clinic in Arizona for an evening with United States Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
Brian Henry
Brian Henry is the translator of Tomaž Šalamun’s Kiss the Eyes of Peace and Woods and Chalices, as well as Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers and six books by Aleš Šteger, most recently Burning Tongues: New and Selected Poems.