Philadelphia, PA —
Grady Chambers at Big Blue Marble Bookstore
Poet behind North American Stadiums Grady Chambers will appear at Big Blue Marble Bookstore in conversation with Valerie Wallace.
Minneapolis, MN —
Mill City Farmers Market | September
Join Milkweed Books for their September appearance at the MCFM!
Minneapolis, MN —
Big Ideas: Fairy Tales with Daniel Mallory Ortberg
Daniel Mallory Ortberg discusses fairy tales for the Loft Literary Center’s Big Ideas series.
Minneapolis, MN —
Reading: P. Scott Cunningham’s Ya Te Veo
Join us for this reading with poet, essayist, and translator P. Scott Cunningham in celebration of his debut collection of poems, Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas), also featuring Twin Cities-based poets Michael Kleber-Diggs and Katharine Rauk.
Claire Wahmanholm
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder, Redmouth, and, most recently, Meltwater, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and was a National Book Award Science + Literature selection. A McKnight Writing Fellow and the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, she lives in the Twin Cities.
Minneapolis, MN —
Reading: Kelly Forsythe’s Perennial
Poet, publisher, and educator Kelly Forsythe reads from Perennial (Coffee House Press), her debut collection of poems exploring adolescence, trauma, and gun violence. Kelly will be joined by fiction writer Karen Gu.
Minneapolis, MN —
Sunday Social: Jessica Hopper’s Night Moves with Danez Smith
Join us for this Sunday conversation between music critic and former Minneapolitan Jessica Hopper and poet Danez Smith, in celebration of Hopper’s new memoir, Night Moves (University of Texas Press).
St. Anthony, MN —
Brain Laidlaw Performing at Silverwood Onstage
Brian Laidlaw will be featured at Silverwood Onstage, performing songs from his upcoming title, The Mirrormaker.
Authors / Watch & Listen
There is No Them; There is Only Us: An Excerpt from Hearth
What borders are really about, and what we do with them. The fullness of what it is to be Mexican (and American). A preview of Luis Alberto Urrea’s contribution to the forthcoming anthology Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place.
Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea was born in Tijuana, Mexico. Extensively published in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, his work has won the American Book Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He has also has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and was voted into the Latino Literature Hall of Fame. He is the author of sixteen books, among them The House of Broken Angels, The Devil’s Highway, The Hummingbird’s Daughter, and the recent poetry collection, The Tijuana Book of the Dead. Urrea lives with his family in Naperville, Illinois.