Drury Lane Books releases its 2025 author events schedule featuring talks, meet-and-greets, and full moon poetry
May 28, 2025 10:30AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: Boreal Community Media. All other photos by Alex Dobbins
By Laura Durenberger-Grunow and Alex Dobbins - Boreal Community Media - May 28, 2025
Author talks invite attendees to listen to a brief presentation from an author, which includes a reading from one of their books, followed by an opportunity to have their books signed and to meet the author. Sometimes, the events feature special components, such as this one with Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota citizen from the Upper Sioux Community, who visited to discuss her book, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. In addition to a short presentation and book reading, the event also included a seed swap and baked goods from recipes found in the book.
Meet-and-greets are more of an open-house style of event, where attendees can come into the store, get their book signed, say hello to the author, and then browse around.
Full moon poetry readings invite attendees to bring their work to share with a group around a fire (weather permitting), as the full moon rises over the east bay of Grand Marais.
Some full moon readings, like the most recent one featuring local North Shore poet and artist Shelley Getten, include a special guest or group to join in on the sharing. Getten shared poems from her book Of Cows and Crows, which are arranged to walk the reader through her adolescent years on the farm. All of the artwork in her book is her original block prints as well.
After Getten shared, the floor was opened up to community members and poetry lovers. Almost every member in the audience shared a piece of poetry, either their own or from other poets.
All events are free and open to the public, and are held at the bookstore at 12 E Wisconsin Street, Grand Marais (or next to the donut shop). Drury Lane Books Events Planner and Bookseller Kestrel Burton told Boreal Community Media that there may be a few additional events added to the list as the year unfolds.
By Laura Durenberger-Grunow and Alex Dobbins - Boreal Community Media - May 28, 2025
Author talks invite attendees to listen to a brief presentation from an author, which includes a reading from one of their books, followed by an opportunity to have their books signed and to meet the author. Sometimes, the events feature special components, such as this one with Teresa Peterson, Utuhu Cistinna Win, a Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota citizen from the Upper Sioux Community, who visited to discuss her book, Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden. In addition to a short presentation and book reading, the event also included a seed swap and baked goods from recipes found in the book.
Meet-and-greets are more of an open-house style of event, where attendees can come into the store, get their book signed, say hello to the author, and then browse around.
Full moon poetry readings invite attendees to bring their work to share with a group around a fire (weather permitting), as the full moon rises over the east bay of Grand Marais.
Author and artist Shelly Getten, from Two Harbors, with her new poetry collection "Of Cows and Crows."
Some full moon readings, like the most recent one featuring local North Shore poet and artist Shelley Getten, include a special guest or group to join in on the sharing. Getten shared poems from her book Of Cows and Crows, which are arranged to walk the reader through her adolescent years on the farm. All of the artwork in her book is her original block prints as well.
After Getten shared, the floor was opened up to community members and poetry lovers. Almost every member in the audience shared a piece of poetry, either their own or from other poets.
Shelley Getten reads poems about life on the farm as a young girl to the crowd.
All events are free and open to the public, and are held at the bookstore at 12 E Wisconsin Street, Grand Marais (or next to the donut shop). Drury Lane Books Events Planner and Bookseller Kestrel Burton told Boreal Community Media that there may be a few additional events added to the list as the year unfolds.
May
- 5/31 6:00 pm Author Talk, Kent Nerburn, Lone Dog Road
June
- 6/4 6:00 pm Author Talk, Arnold Alanen, The Scenic Route (AT LIBRARY)
- 6/7 6:00 pm Author Talk, Andrea Gilats, Radical Endurance
- 6/21 11-1:00 pm Meet and Greet, John Owens, One Spring Up North
- 6/26 6:00 pm Author Talk, J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
July
- 7/5 6:00 pm Author Talk, Phyllis Root and Kelly Povo, Chasing Wildflowers
- 7/12 10-12 pm Meet and Greet, Deborah J. Winchell and Renee Andriani, Rocky’s Lighthouse Adventure
- 7/12 6:00 pm Author Talk, Peter Geye, A Lesser Light
August
- 8/2 6:00 pm Author Talk, Benjamin Percy, Comet Cycle Series
- 8/23 11-1 pm Meet and Greet, Molly Beth Griffin, Rings of Heartwood
- 8/30 6:00 pm Author Talk, T Williams and David Lawerence Grant, Rewind
May's full Flower Moon
September
- 9/7 6:00 pm Full Moon Reading
- 9/13 6:00 pm Author Talk with Carl Gawboy, Rain Newcomb, Staci Lola Drouillard
- 9/20 6:00 pm Author Talk, Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe
October
- 10/25 6:00 pm Author Talk, Janis Fairbanks, Sugar Bush Babies: Memoir
- 12/13 11-1:00 pm Meet and Greet, Kelsey Oseid, What We See in the Stars
