Minneapolis, MN —

Seed Week for Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper: Seed Celebration with Panel Discussion, Art, & Music

Seed Week is a week-long series of programs celebrating Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper and the power of seeds through storytelling, art, music, gardening, and cooking, presented by All My Relations Arts in collaboration with Milkweed Editions, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Dream of Wild Health, Hennepin County Library, and Birchbark Books. On Friday, tune in for a panel discussion and Q&A with local organizations, including Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Indigenous Food Network, Dream of Wild Health, Four Sisters (a project of NACDI), and Hennepin County Community Seed Libraries. Seed Week will conclude with a performance by musician Keith Secola. Learn more here!

Minneapolis, MN —

Seed Week for Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper: Cooking Demonstration

Seed Week is a week-long series of programs celebrating Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper and the power of seeds through storytelling, art, music, gardening, and cooking, presented by All My Relations Arts in collaboration with Milkweed Editions, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Dream of Wild Health, Hennepin County Library, and Birchbark Books. On Thursday, tune in for cooking demonstration led by the youth leaders of Dream of Wild Health. Learn more here!

Minneapolis, MN —

Seed Week for Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper: Seed Planting Workshop

Seed Week is a week-long series of programs celebrating Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper and the power of seeds through storytelling, art, music, gardening, and cooking, presented by All My Relations Arts in collaboration with Milkweed Editions, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Dream of Wild Health, Hennepin County Library, and Birchbark Books. On Wednesday, tune in for a seed planting demonstration led by Dream of Wild Health. Learn more here!

Minneapolis, MN —

Seed Week for Diane Wilson's The Seed Keeper: Traditional Seed Storytelling

Seed Week is a week-long series of programs celebrating Diane Wilson’s The Seed Keeper and the power of seeds through storytelling, art, music, gardening, and cooking, presented by All My Relations Arts in collaboration with Milkweed Editions, Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance, Dream of Wild Health, Hennepin County Library, and Birchbark Books. On Monday, tune in for an evening of traditional storytelling with Hope Flanagan, Jim Rock, and Rocky Makes Room for Them. Learn more here!

Authors / Interviews

Deep Cuts: Northern Light

Bailey Hutchinson — 03/01/2021

Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of Deep Cuts! In this series, we dive in with some of our authors and discuss the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their books. This month, I’m so pleased to be featuring Kazim Ali’s Northern Light, a ruminative study of the word home.

Northern Light opens with a photo of a young, smiling Ali. He’s standing at the end of one of three rows of children—Jenpeg School’s ‘77-‘78 class of first graders. I’ve found myself lingering on this page, studying the various expressions marking the children’s faces…

Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover is the author of the poetry volumes O, and Green: New and Selected Poems; Desolation: Souvenir; Sonnet 56; Edge and Fold; and Poems in Spanish, which was nominated for a Bay Area Book Award.

Maria Baranda

Born in 1962, the Mexican poet María Baranda is a winner of major literary awards in Mexico, the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize and the Efrain Huerta National Poetry Prize, as well as Spain’s Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.