Environmentalists Lauret Savoy and J. Drew Lanham will be giving lectures about the relationship between ourselves and nature.

Hosted by Five Writers, Five Minutes, Five Watt, Jennifer Willoughby is one of ten Twin Cities female poets that will read five minutes of fresh work and sit for a panel/conversation about what it means to write and be in these times.

PEN America’s new Press Freedom Incentive Fund hosts a panel discussion on censorship, news literacy, and the importance of fact-checking with Sun Yung Shin, Sheila Regan, Shannon Gibney, Caroline Casey, and Marya Hornbacher with panel moderator Joanna R. Demkiewicz.

Poet and National Book Award finalist Solmaz Sharif reads from her collection LOOK at the Loft Literary Center’s Big Ideas event.

Celebrate Small Business Saturday with Milkweed Books during this full day of literary festivities, featuring a reading with Alex Lemon. Stop by for special discounts and to visit with guest booksellers from Coffee House Press and Graywolf Press.

Join Milkweed at the Guthrie Theater to celebrate Caitlin Bailey, winner of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, and her debut collection of poems, Solve for Desire. The evening will feature a reception, reading, and conversation between Caitlin and contest judge Srikanth Reddy.

As part of her From Farm to Fork tour of Minnesota, join award-winning cookbook writer Beth Dooley, author of In Winter’s Kitchen, for a conversation about the local food scene in Grand Marais and developments, concerns, and history unique to Minnesota.