Karen Babine will read from and sign copies of her collection of essays, All the Wild Hungers, which explores the intimate connections between food, family, and illness.
Poets Sarah Kay (All Our Wild Wonder), Laurie Filipelli (Girl, Paper, Stone) and Analicia Sotelo (Virgin) read new work that approaches the world with eyes wide with wonder, ready to transform and to be transformed. Moderated by Octavio Quintanilla.
Presented by Sorin Oak Review and emceed by Sasha West, this event will feature Laurie Filipelli, Niki Herd, Tommy Pico, and Analicia Sotelo. This panel of poet oracles will read visionary, instructive, and surprising answers to audience questions.
Distinguished poet Michael Bazzett reads from his verse translation of one of the only indigenous epics of the Americas, The Popol Vuh.
Mindy Nettifee, author of Open Your Mouth Like a Bell, will moderate a conversation between Ada Limón, author of The Carrying, Alicia Jo Rabins, author of Fruit Geode, and Ashley Toliver, author of Spectra.
Omar El Akkad, journalist and author of American War, will interview Elizabeth Rush at the Portland Book Festival.
William Brewer will appear alongside Rob Hylton, sam sax, and Rachel Wiley in the Poems and Conversation: Readings and Q & A event at the Dodge Poetry Festival
WORD Brooklyn hosts Jos Charles for reading from her poetry collection feeld.
AMY THIELEN is the author of the James Beard Award-winning cookbook The New Midwestern Table and the host of Heartland Table on Food Network. A former New York City line cook, she now speaks and writes about home cooking for radio, television, and magazines, including Saveur, where she’s a contributing editor. She lives with her husband, visual artist Aaron Spangler, their son, his dog, and a bunch of chickens, in rural Park Rapids, Minnesota.
