Stories From the Trail

Name: Stories From the Trail
Start: 2024-10-21T18:30:00-05:00
Location: 3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406

Schedule

Mon Oct 21 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3032 Minnehaha Ave, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Minnesota 55406 | Minneapolis, MN

Join Heidi Barr (Minnesota author of Collisions of Earth and Sky & 12 Tiny Things), Chris La Tray (Montana's Poet Laureate and author of Becoming Little Shell), and Krissy Kludt (Wisconsin-based director of Writing the Wild) on Monday, October 21st at 6:30pm as they discuss Stories from the Trail, a new anthology about moving through wild spaces and share more stories and readings from recent work.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
Stories from the Trail is a collection of writing about wayfinding, specifically, hiking–what a walk (or roll, depending on the ambulatory needs of the hiker) through the woods, across a prairie, over a desert, or up a mountain has to offer in terms of reflections, hard-earned lessons, and stories. These are essays about and poetic interpretations of specific experiences out on the trail, hiking as a lifestyle choice, and reflections that bring to light how time moving through the natural world has added to each writer’s life – and thus their contribution to the world – for good.
Some of the authors in these pages didn’t discover hiking until later in life, some grew up on the trails, and some have had to change how they interact with moving through the outdoors. But no matter how they traverse the trails, or when they discovered that doing so was important to life, what they share is a love for navigating nature on their own terms. Whether it’s hiking through New York City into the wild, or traversing the backcountry trails of Sweden, or reclaiming a place in the wild after some time away, may these essays inspire you to keep going outside and creating your own stories from the trail.