Land & Water: A Writing Workshop with Halee Kirkwood

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Join us for a two-part workshop in support of the Mary Ann Key Book Club conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer. Today’s workshop, led by poet Halee Kirkwood, focuses on water, encouraging participants to write about a waterway that nourishes them. Refreshments begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by the workshop at 6 p.m. The workshop is offered in a hybrid format, both in person at All My Relations Arts Gallery or online via Facebook Live. Registration required.*

Setting is often described as an element in a writer’s story, a tool that helps the reader visualize the place where their characters live. And yet, as humans, we are profoundly shaped by the land we come from, the water we live near, the plants and animals who share the earth with us, and the horizon that greets us each day. Along with discussion of select excerpts by various writers, such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Linda Hogan, and Kimberly Blaeser, participants will explore their relationship to place through brief writing exercises, and consider how they might extend that visualization to their broader work.

Additional events in this series at All My Relations Arts Gallery include:

Collaborators: All My Relations Arts; More Than a Single Story.

This program is funded with money from Minnesota’s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Sponsor: Friends of the Hennepin County Library.

Halee Kirkwood’s debut poetry collection, “To Think of a Match,” is forthcoming with Curbstone Press in spring 2027. Kirkwood is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, an inaugural and returning Indigenous Nations Poets fellow, and a 2019 Loft Mentor Series fellow. They are a direct descendant of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe.