Join environmentalist/composer Gabriela Lena Frank and writer/birder/conservationist J. Drew Lanham for a conversation on collaboration, sustainability, birds, and music; and for the announcement of their new work for orchestra set to premiere January 2024, commissioned by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and The Great Northern, with generous support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting. The lunch hour event will feature three unique song settings, all using the same lines of poetry by Lanham, composed by Frank, performed by pianist Ahmed Anzaldua and mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski. Register here!

Join Jennifer Huang for a virtual reading of Return Flight hosted by Moon Palace Books. Huang will be joined by Tarik Dobbs, Marlin M. Jenkins, and Sun Yung Shin. Register here!

Vermont Studio Center is pleased to host a special featured reading with poet Hannah Emerson, with an introduction by Chris Martin. Hannah will present work from her forthcoming collection, The Kissing of Kissing. This event is free and open to the public via Zoom. Register here!

Join Washington County Library for an evening in conversation with Diane Wilson. This is a virtual event, please register to receive the Zoom link.

Everyone who registers for this event will be entered into a drawing for a book bundle containing titles by all six of the authors featured in the Write in our Midst series. The drawing will be held at the end of the series and the winner will be notified via email.

Meet the authors featured in the Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library’s Fireside Reading Series, including Diane Wilson and Michael Kleber-Diggs. Buy their books and enjoy a warm drink on the lawn of the Hamline Midway Library.

Join The Fireside Reading Series, one of The Friends’ longest-running and most popular events, for a virtual reading with Michael Kleber-Diggs, author of Worldly Things. Register here!

Join The Fireside Reading Series, one of The Friends’ longest-running and most popular events, for a virtual reading with Diane Wilson, author of The Seed Keeper. Register here!

Join poets Brian Tierney, Jay Deshpande, and Craig Morgan Teicher for a reading at KGB Bar in NYC. More details here!

How an inspiring author, Robin Wall Kimmerer, the power of independent bookstores, and word of mouth turned Braiding Sweetgrass into a publishing phenomenon.

Please join us for a panel discussion co-hosted by the NYU SPS Center for Publishing, NYU SPS Office of Alumni Relations and Milkweed Editions on the 2021-2022 NYU Reads selection, Braiding Sweetgrass. Learn how an indie book sold half a million copies and topped bestseller lists eight years after publication. Hear from the author, Milkweed Editions Publisher & CEO Daniel Slager, and Point Reyes bookstore owner Stephen Sparks share their…

Join the Blake School and Milkweed Editions to celebrate Pulitzer Prize Finalist Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising. Register here!