Open now through January 2024, The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) debuted its new literary arts gallery, the Steven and Barbara Slaggie Family Gallery, by producing a 2,300 square foot exhibition that taps into the ageless beauty of wonder, presenting three lauded and celebrated books turned exhibition experiences that run concurrently with the Museum’s Flora & Fauna season—a suite of exhibitions and public programs that explore the plants and animals of our mysterious and brilliant world.

The exhibition features original illustrations from three book projects; Mary Casanova’s Wake Up…

MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl begins her Spotlight Residency with the world premiere adaptation of her 2018 epistolary book, Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, and a Friendship, “a resonant and profound contribution from two fully formed artists to the literature of illness”(Slate). Ruhl, whose accomplished body of work includes Eurydice and Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and The Clean House, here shares letters and poems passed between herself and her former student Max Ritvo, as he candidly discusses terminal illness and tests poetry’s capacity to put to…

Celebrating literature and language as an antidote to the troubled world in which we live, the 2023 Rose Warner Reading Series inspires students to explore the creative literary arts on the welcoming Duluth campus of The College of St. Scholastica. All you need to do is show up. We’ll do the rest.

CSS’s English Department looks forward to sharing time with the nation’s engaged citizens of tomorrow, accompanied by you, the teachers of today. Please note, for teachers attending and participating in sessions organized specifically for you, CSS will provide Continuing Education Unit certificates…

As part of the Loft’s yearlong theme exploring Narrative Power, Courtney Faye Taylor will read from her Cave Canem Poetry Prize–winning poetry collection, Concentrate. Su Hwang will then join Courtney in conversation around the collection that she described as “medicine, testimony, quest, anthem, balm, and seed.” Please join the Loft and Graywolf Press to celebrate the publication of a collection poet Franny Choi declared a “major work, a profoundly moving anti-erasure crafted with equal parts ingenuity and care.”

Presented by the Loft and Graywolf Press.

Book sales and signing will be…

Join us for a special book launch event in celebration of A Darker Wilderness—a vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory featuring a constellation of luminary writers. Featuring live readings from the book’s contributors Michael Kleber-Diggs, katie robinson, and Tia-Simone Gardner, and a conversation to follow.

Join us at 6:00 PM at Milkweed Books located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with the authors in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!

Chris Dombrowski discusses his acclaimed new book, The River You Touch, with Amy Leach.

“You won’t soon read a more beautiful book, nor one so earthy, wise, delicious, and alive. This is not a book about fish or rivers or Montana or parenting. This is a book, to paraphrase another poet, plain and simple, to break open the frozen sea within.” —Rick Bass

This virtual event will be streamed on Crowdcast.

Join Ama Codjoe for a reading and conversation in celebration of her debut collection, Bluest Nude.

After surviving a humpback whale crashing into his kayak, Tom Mustill turned to his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker to investigate human-whale interactions around the world. And in How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, he examines how artificial intelligence – originally designed to translate human languages – is being used to discover and decode patterns in animal communications. After moving from northern India to North America as a teenager, author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar became increasingly distanced from the natural world she once…

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before “our wild rosebush, neglected / by the gate, / blooms.” Lovers who don’t return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In You Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profound—sometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy…