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Excerpts: Dear Memory, For Joshua, Peyakow, & Saga Boy
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief by Victoria Chang
Dear Mother,
I have so many questions. What city were you born in? What was your American birthday? Your Chinese birthday? What did your mother do? What did your grandmother do? Who was your father, grandfather? It’s too late now. But I would like to know.
I would like to know why your mother followed Chiang Kai-shek, taking you and your six (or seven?) siblings across China to Taiwan. I would like to know what was said in the planning meeting. I would like to know who was…
St. Paul, MN —
A Reading with Michael Bazzett & Ryan Vine at Next Chapter Booksellers
Join poets Michael Bazzett and Ryan Vine for a reading and conversation at Next Chapter Booksellers. Details here!
N/A, OH —
Ohioana Book Awards, featuring Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Tune in to the virtual 2021 Ohioana Awards! Free and open to the public. Program includes winners’ remarks and a post-awards roundtable. Aimee Nezhukumatathil is this year’s nonfiction winner for World of Wonders. Register here!
N/A, MN —
A Performance of Éireann Lorsung's "An Archaeology" from The Century, with Andrea Blancas Beltran, Wah-Ming Chang, Laressa Dickey, Arlene Kim, & Nina MacLaughlin
Join Éireann Lorsung for a multivocal performance of her poem “An archaeology” from The Century, alongside new work by Andrea Blancas Beltran, Wah-Ming Chang, Laressa Dickey, Arlene Kim, and Nina MacLaughlin. Free and open to the public. Register via Zoom here!
St. Paul, MN —
Brian Laidlaw at the Twin Cities Book Festival
Join Brian Laidlaw at the Twin Cities Book Festival! The Adaptation Station is a magical switchyard where poems turn into songs. Bring an old favorite poem (or better yet, a new favorite poem from a book you just bought at the TCBF!) and poet-songwriter Brian Laidlaw will songify the text and set it to music on the fly. More details here!
St. Paul, MN —
Kazim Ali at the Twin Cities Book Festival
Join Kazim Ali at the Twin Cities Book Festival for a discussion of his new books The Citadel of Whispers and Northern Light. More details here!
St. Paul, MN —
torrin a. greathouse at the Twin Cities Book Festival
Join torrin a. greathouse at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” greathouse will be speaking about her poetry collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound during the fourth session of the day (2 — 2:45 PM). More details here!
St. Paul, MN —
Michael Bazzett at the Twin Cities Book Festival
Join Michael Bazzett at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” Bazzett will be speaking about his poetry collection The Echo Chamber during the third session of the day (1 — 1:45 PM). More details here!
St. Paul, MN —
Diane Wilson at the Twin Cities Book Festival
Join Diane Wilson at the Twin Cities Book Festival’s “Minnesota Author Mashup.” Wilson will be speaking about her novel The Seed Keeper during the first session of the day (11 — 11:45 AM). More details here!