Authors / Watch & Listen
New Work by Robin Wall Kimmerer: “Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System”
Just released in the latest issue of Emergence Magazine is a new essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer, complete with an interactive experience including audio, parallax illustration, the most cosmological photos of corn you will possibly ever see in your life, stop motion animation with folded paper corn, and an interactive timeline.
New York, NY
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Sarah Ruhl with Angela Chen and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
Join the Poetry Society of America for a special program featuring writers Sarah Ruhl, Angela Chen, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, who will share and reflect on the poems, letters, and journals of poets who explored – with verve, intellect, and grace – the presence of death in their lives and their work.
Awards & Prizes
John James Wins the 2nd Annual Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
For his manuscript The Milk Hours, chosen by acclaimed poet and judge Henri Cole, James will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions in June 2019.
John James
John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows, Late Migrations, and Graceland, at Last. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly.
Bookstore / Roundup
Bao Phi’s Book Bundle
Welcome to our Book Bundle series! Authors we love choose three of their favorite titles, we bundle them up nicely, and your to-be-read pile flourishes. This round of recommended reading comes from esteemed Twin Cities poet Bao Phi. See what Bao has to say about these three books he loves!
Bao Phi
Bao Phi is a multiple Minnesota Grand Slam poetry champ and National Poetry Slam finalist who has been on HBO’s Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry and whose work was included in the Best American Poetry anthology of 2006. He is the author of Sông I Sing, Thousand Star Hotel, and A Different Pond, a Caldecott Honor Award book for children. He is currently the Program Director of the Loft Literary Center.
Miami, FL
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MCAD Book Talks: A Conversation with Elizabeth Rush
AIA Miami hosts Elizabeth Rush for a conversation about her Rising and sea level rise as a part of their MCAD Book Talks reading series.
Saint Paul, MN
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Caitlin Bailey with April Gibson, Kate Lucas, Sagirah Shahid, and Matt Rasmussen
Poets Caitlin Bailey, April Gibson, Kate Lucas, Sagirah Shahid, and Matt Rasmussen will read, followed by a conversation moderated by Carl Atiya Swanson.