Past Events


		Marie Mutsuki Mockett Sr Mariella Gable Prize Winner 2020

Susan Steinberg Novelist, Chair of English USFCA	Sally Wen Mao Poet, Writer, Educator	Shena McAuliffe Assistant Professor of Fiction Winner of Big Moose Prize

Chris Abani Acclaimed novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and playwright	Spencer Reece Poet and Documentarian	Joyce Carol Oates National Book Awared-Winning Novelist, poet, playwright and essayist

Tarfia Faizullah Poet	Jamel Brinkley 2018 Sister Mariella Gable Award Winner	John Coy and Gaylord Schanilec Project: My Mighty Journey John is an author, speaker, educator Gaylord is a fine printer and wood engraver

Kevin Young Author, Literary Critic, and Poetry Editor	Solmaz Sharif Poet and finalist for 2016 National Book Award	Edwidge Danticat 2017 Sister Mariella Gable Award Winner

Michael Mercil Visual Artist	Ann Hamilton Visual Artist	Susan Stewart Poet and Critic

Fanny Howe Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize	Kimberly Blaeser Photographer and Poet	Rebecca Solnit Author & environmentalist

Eula Biss 2015 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	Paul Muldoon Pulitzer Prize-winning poet	Laila Lalami 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist

LAI 18th Anniversary Reading Howe, Rankine, Carson, and Anno	A Conversation with Stuart Dybeck and Francine Prose	Revising Highway 61 Discussion of Bob Dylan's influence

Claudia Rankine PEN Open Book Award	Marjane Satrapi Bestselling Author and Illustrator	Mary Szybist National Book Award for Poetry

Larry Haeg Minnesota Book Award Finalist	Roz Chast Staff Cartoonist at The New Yorker	Brenda Hillman International Griffin Poetry Prize

Ru Freeman 2013 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	Community Reading With seven local authors	Straw into Gold Papermaking event

Ludwig Laher Austrian Author and Poet	Avivah Zornberg Torah Scholar	John Thavis Francis de Sales Award

Marie Howe Guggenheim Fellow	Diane Ackerman 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalist	Deborah Baker 2012 Sister Mariella Gable Prize

Geoff Dyer Author and Essayist	Katherine A. Powers Editor of Suitable Accommodations	Scott Russell Sanders 2009 Mark Twain Award

Sarah Vowell Bestselling Author	Koo Nimo with Mary Hark Ghanaian Musician, Book Artist	Asian Papermaking Workshop

Seamus Heaney 1995 Nobel Laureate	Terry Eagleton Author and Literary Theorist	World Voices

Card Making Event	Tiphanie Yanique Pushcart Prize	Sustainability and Publishing

Peter Smith Minnesota Author and Poet	Doreen Baingana Commonwealth Writer's Prize	David Sedaris Grammy Nominee

Bill Meissner Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry	Per Petterson Norwegian Author	Papermaking Class

Elizabeth Alexander Pulitzer Prize Finalist	Bernardo Atxaga and Wang Ping Bestselling Author	Beth Kissileff Author and Editor

Spreading the Word	David Rakoff Author and Humorist	Nick Hayes Author and Political Commentator

Mary Hark Artist and Papermaker	Buzz Spector Artist and Critical Writer	Louise Erdrich National Book Award

Ellen Bryant Voigt Guggenheim Fellow	Carol Connelly St. Paul Poet Laureate	Ruth Rogers Curator of Special Collections

Book Lovers' Night	Language for a New Century Ravi Shankar and Tina Chang	Jorie Graham MacArthur Fellow

Peace, Poetry and Politics	Linda Gregg 2008 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	Don Leeper President of BookMobile

Mary Hark Artist and Papermaker	Li-Young Lee American Book Award	Fanny Howe National Endowment of the Arts

Fawzia Afzal-Khan National Endowment of the Humanities	W.S. Merwin United States Poet Laureate	Sylvia Nasar 1998 Pulitzer Prize Nominee

A Winter's Interlude: Taking Books in Visual Directions	Tracy K. Smith 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry	Marilynne Robinson Hemmingway Foundation/PEN Award

Anne Carson T. S. Eliot Prize	Donald Hall United States Poet Laureate	Writing Passages

Nuruddin Farah 2006 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	Charles Simic U.S. Poet Laureate	SpeakOut on Hurricane Katrina

Robert Hass United States Poet Laureate	Scott Russell Sanders 2009 Mark Twain Award	Anouar Benmalek Prix Ragid Award

SpeakOut on "Faith"	Clint McCown 2004 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	SpeakOut on Fear and Security

The Holiness of the Imagination Avivah Zornberg and Marie Howe	Jon Hassler Guggenheim Fellow	SpeakOut on the Good Life

Joe Coomer 2003 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	David Daniel Larry Levis Prize	Tracy K. Smith 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Mirror of Smiple Souls	Scott Russell Sanders 2009 Mark Twain Award	Diane Glancy American Book Award

Major Jackson 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize	Judith Kitchen 2002 Sister Mariella Gable Prize	Richard Bresnahan and Nor Hall Author, SJU Potter

Live @ the Jungle	Tribute to Jane Kenyon Donald Hall	Nick Flynn 1999 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry

Live @ the Jungle: Voices Under Fire	Barbara Dimmick 2003 Outstanding Work of Fiction	Saskia Hamilton Bunting Fellowship

Fred Marchant Washington Prize in Poetry	Lawrence Sutin Memoirist and Author	Victoria Redel 2001 Sister Mariella Gable Prize

Albert Goldbarth National Book Critics Circle Award	Live @ the Jungle: Portraits in Poetry	Anne Carson T. S. Eliot Prize

Li-Young Lee American Book Award	Jason Shinder Poet Laureate of Provincetown	Molly Peacock National Endowment for the Arts

Jessica Treadway National Endowment for the Arts	Live @ the Jungle: Voices in Fiction	John D'Agata National Endowment for the Arts

Jorie Graham Morton Dauwen Zabel Award	April Bernard Guggenheim Fellow	Robert Pinsky United States Poet Laureate

Josip Novakovitch Whiting Writer's Award	Sven Birkerts	Robin Hemley Guggenheim Fellow

Elizabeth Cox O'Henry Award for Fiction	Patricia Hampl MacArthur Fellowship	Tribute to Jane Kenyon Hall, Bly, Gallagher, and Olds