December 8, 2011, Thursday - Spotlight on Milkweed Editions at Central Library

Time: 7:00pm

Location: Pohlad Hall at Central Library, 300 Nicollet

An Evening of Travel, Politics, and Prose with Christopher Merrill

Award-winning poet, journalist, translator and essayist Christopher Merrill will discuss his new book, The Tree of the Doves: Ceremony, Expedition, War. Merrill, who directs the international Writing Program at the University of Iowa, was recently nominated by the White House for membership on the National Council on the Humanities. He will discuss his extensive travels, and explore what it means to write about the politicized world in the wake of September 11th from a historical as well as a literary perspective, and where we are going as a country and a people from here. Merrill will be introduced and joined on stage by Daniel Slager, Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions.