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Apr 2024
Poetry reading with Danny Klecko
Celebrate poetry with a reading and conversation by St. Paul poet (and baker) Danny Klecko, hosted by Duluth poet Jess Morgan. Klecko was born in Los Angeles. During his youth, he moved to Minneapolis where he discovered at a young age that he was destined to be a baker. Eventually he went on to study bread courses at Dunwoody Technical College in Minneapolis and the American Institute of Baking in Manhattan, Kansas. Klecko's book, Hitman-Baker-Casketmaker, won the 2020 Midwest Book…
Find out more »Community Poetry Reading featuring Lake Superior Writers Members
Members of Lake Superior Writers will celebrate the art of poetry during this reading in the UMD Library Rotunda. Anyone can sign up for a five-minute reading slot to share their own original work or the work of other poets. Sign up for a reading slot at lakesuperiorwriters.org.
Find out more »An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Monday, repeating until May 6, 2024
Foundations of Flash Fiction
An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Monday, repeating until May 6, 2024
Writer Katie Perttunen teaches writing within six weeks at Foundations of Flash Fiction. Perttunen has published two books, written for three newspapers and was the poetry editor for an online literary magazine. This class is best for ages 12 and older and is for both experienced and beginner writers. Participants will need to bring paper, writing implements and the book "Elements of Style".
Find out more »Disability Visibility Fair
The Duluth Public Library hosts a Disability Visibility Fair at the Main Library. The day’s highlights include over a dozen local organizations to share information on disability and accessibility, a community art project facilitated by CHOICE Unlimited, a community book discussion, and talk by local musician and disability culture advocate, Gaelynn Lea. An ASL interpreter will be present at Gaelynn’s presentation and the community book discussion. Schedule: Noon-4:30 p.m. Disability Visibility Fair 1-2 p.m. Talk and Q&A with Gaelynn Lea…
Find out more »Tales of Migration: a Reading
The UMD students in Writ 4200: Writing and Cultures share works by authors from around the world from their forthcoming collection Tales of Travel. Humanities 480, UMD campus.
Find out more »Fur Trade Nation: Book Release Celebration
Celebrate Carl Gawboy's new book, Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe's Graphic History. This beautiful publication is the debut of Animikii Mazina’iganan: Thunderbird Press, from Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College. The evening will include a feast, a performance from Oshkii Giizhik Singers, brief remarks from the author and a book signing.
Find out more »Twin Ports Poetry Showcase
The Twin Ports Poetry Showcase highlights 30 poetic voices within the Duluth/Superior and surrounding region. A panel of local writers spread throughout the Twin Ports will read and review submissions to select the 30 readers. Poets are selected through a blind reading (without the author's name attached) by the review team, and performers will be informed if they've been selected within the first couple weeks of April. Deadline to send in entries is Sunday, March 31 at 4 p.m. Those…
Find out more »May 2024
Author Talk with Linda LeGarde Grover
Author, Linda LeGarde Grover gives a presentation, in the Minnesota room of Lake Superior College, on her latest book: A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids: Writing Past and Present on Native Landscapes.
Find out more »Finding Your Flash: How to Tell a Story in 500 Words or Less
Focus on the fundamental building blocks of storytelling at the Duluth Folk School. Look at genre and literary fiction to find your voice within. After examining examples, you will have a variety of prompts to craft your own personal narrative. After several rounds of revision and discussion, you will leave with a piece ready to pitch to the variety of literary magazines, both virtually and in print. Registration is required and can be done at duluthfolkschool.com
Find out more »Meet and Greet with Lisa M. Bolt Simons
Meet Lisa Bolt Simons who will be signing copies of, Boxed Out: A Choose Your Path Basketball Book at Zenith Bookstore. Interactive books for kids are more popular than ever. Create your own adventure with the Choose to Win book series — you're the main character and you make the choices. Lisa M. Bolt Simons has written 70 nonfiction and fiction children’s books. including five middle-grade Choose Your Path novels. She has twice received an honorable mention for the McKnight…
Find out more »Indigenous Writer Series: Gwen Westerman and Linda LeGarde Grover
The Indigenous Writer Series showcases local and regional Indigenous writers. Events include writer presentations, book readings, a Q&A session, book signings and refreshments. The McKnight Foundation and UMD Department of American Indian Studies sponsor the series. On May 18 novelist, Linda LeGarde Grover, and Dakota educator and writer, Gwen Westerman, will showcase their work.
Find out more »How the Birds Got Their Songs
Travis Zimmerman and Sam Zimmerman will present their new children's book, How The Birds Got Their Songs. The Great Spirit challenges all the birds to a contest and the gift of birdsong is born. This traditional story, told in both English and Ojibwe, explains bird behavior and where humans should go to hear the prettiest of birdsongs. This story handed down through author Travis Zimmerman's family, features traditional knowledge from the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. Grand Portage…
Find out more »Story Time Book Signing with Staci Lola Drouillard
Staci Lola Drouillard is presenting a story-time and book-signing as she debuts her new children's book A Family Tree. Staci Lola Drouillard lives and works in her hometown of Kitchibitobig — Grand Marais. Her first book for adults, Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe, won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History, the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.
Find out more »Jun 2024
Book Signing with Cheri Johnson
Meet Cheri Johnson who will be at Zenith Bookstore signing copies of her new book Annika Rose. Johnson has won grants and residencies from organizations such as the McKnight Foundation, the Bush Foundation, Yaddo and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She studied writing at the University of Minnesota, Hollins University and Augsburg University.
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