Ricardo Levins Morales, author of The Land Knows the Way: Eco-Social Insights for Liberation 
Memoir/Nonfiction
Wednesday, January 14 | 6:30 p.m.
New location! Rondo Community Library at the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
270 North Kent Street, Saint Paul

Or via Zoom | REGISTER HERE for Zoom event

About the Book 

A collection of essays gathered from six decades of activism on how to creatively and effectively respond to living in times that are both unprecedented and unique but also part of longstanding and familiar historical cycles.  

About the Author 

Ricardo Levins Morales is an artist and organizer based in Minneapolis. He uses his art as a form of political medicine to support individual and collective healing. He also leads workshops on creative organizing, social justice strategy and sustainable activism. 

About the Fireside Reading Series

Great authors by the fireside.

FREE
Wednesdays | January 7 – January 28, 2026 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library at the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center
270 N Kent Street, Saint Paul

or via Zoom
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Cozy up for four weeks of readings with great writers. In partnership with Saint Paul Public Library, Fireside Reading Series highlights some of Minnesota’s finest writers who have published new work.

Captioning will be provided for all four livestreamed events. ASL interpretation is available upon request with at least seven days’ notice. Contact [email protected] or 651-222-3242.

These programs are made possible in part through the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund and an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature to The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the Minnesota Center for the Book.  

All Fireside Events

Wednesday, January 7th 
Mindy Mejia, The Whisper Place
Fiction 

Wednesday, January 14th
Ricardo Levins Morales, The Land Knows the Way: Eco-Social Insights for Liberation
Memoir/Nonfiction 

Wednesday, January 21st  
Debra J. Stone, The House on Rondo
Fiction 

Wednesday, January 28th 
Greg Gaut, The War at Home: Minnesota During the Great War, 1914 – 1920 
Nonfiction