Poets Michael Earl Craig, author of Iggy Horse, and Christopher Brean Murray, author of Black Observatory, will read from and discuss their new books.
The free event begins at 7 p.m., and a book signing and reception will follow.
Fellow poets Christopher Brean Murray (of Houston, TX) and Michael Earl Craig (of Livingston, MT) read from new books Black Observatory (Murray’s first) and Iggy Horse (Craig’s sixth), respectively. Please join us at 5pm.
Light refreshments will be served. Parking is available in Lot D. Our friends at Strive Publishing & Bookstore will have books for sale in person at the event our you can order them online at Milkweed Books. Photos from Augsburg’s Pan-Afrikan Archive will be on display.
Location: Augsburg University’s Hagfors Center, Room 150 & Zoom (pre-registration for virtual attendance is preferred).
Contact: Monica McDaniel, Sustainability Officer (mcdaniem@augsburg.edu)
Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds, widely acclaimed as “a landmark book” that “could help people around the world rewild their hearts and souls” (Psychology Today). Kumar will talk about what inspired her to write Conversations with Birds and segue into reading two passages from the book specifically about her experiences with Sandhill cranes and long-billed curlews.
To be followed by an interactive Q&A about these birds and their habitat needs and then a book signing.
Meet poet-farmer Scott Chaskey, author of Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life, at the Mill City Farmers Market in Minneapolis!
10:30am Reading from the author at the Guthrie stairs
11:00am Soil and Spirit book signing at the Milkweed Books table
This event takes place at the Mill City Farmers Market. It is free and open to the public.
As a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has combined a longstanding commitment…
Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1980, Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.
We are based in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis) in Mní Sota Makhóčhe (Minnesota), the traditional homeland of the Dakhóta and Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people and current home to many thousands of Dakhóta, Ojibwe, and other Indigenous people, including four federally recognized Dakhóta nations and seven federally recognized Ojibwe nations.
Join for readings by Ama Codjoe and Carl Phillips, two powerfully original voices in American poetry as they read from their new books — vital poems that find revelation in the intersections between language, history, and desire.
Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.
In the following interview, the famously personable hybrid-author made a stop in to the Milkweed Editions offices in Minneapolis, MN in the midst of touring for his new book, which has just been named a finalist…
Join Erin Sharkey to discuss The Language of Trees and A Darker Wilderness with Katie Holten.
