Author James Silas Rogers to visit campus and discuss new book

James Silas Rogers, author of "Northern Orchards: Places Near the Dead," will be having an informal conversation about his new book at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at Saint John's Pottery on the Saint John's University campus.

Guests will have the opportunity to ask Rogers questions about his new book while enjoying a buffet with assorted beverages and hot hors d'oeuvres. Rogers said through poems, essays and photographs, "Northern Orchards" leads us "into a connectedness and awe before all that is greater than ourselves, not to celebrate the snowflake, but the snowflake falling into the river."

Rogers has visited the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University campuses before and is no stranger to the community. He is the director of the Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul and has been cited as "notable" in "Best American Essays."

Rogers is the editor of New Hibernia Review magazine and editor of the recently published collection "Extended Family: Essays on Being Irish American from New Hibernia Review." Rogers wrote the chapbook "Sundogs" and has been featured on Garrison Keillor's Writers Almanac.

He is an accomplished essayist and memoirist whose creative non-fiction has appeared in New Letters, Notre Dame Magazine and Ruminate. Rogers will be signing copies of "Northern Orchards" that can be purchased at the event.

The conversation is open to the public, but space is limited. Please pre-register for the event by emailing [email protected]. This event is sponsored by Saint John's Pottery, the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict and the University Chair in Critical Thinking at Saint John's University.