Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America by Taiyon Coleman | Memoir
Wednesday, January 8 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library | 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul
OR via Zoom | REGISTER HERE

About the Book

Coleman shares intimate essays from her life. She explores what it means to write her story and that of her family—an act at once a responsibility and a privilege—bringing forth the inherent contradictions between American ideals and Black reality.

About the Author

Taiyon J. Coleman is a poet, writer, and educator whose work has been anthologized widely. She is a 2017 recipient of a McKnight Foundation Artist Fellowship in Creative Prose and a recipient of a 2018–2019 Mirrors and Windows Fellowship. She is associate professor of English and women’s studies at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota.

About the Fireside Reading Series

Great authors by the fireside.

FREE
Wednesdays | January 8 – January 29, 2025 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library | 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul

or via Zoom
thefriends.org/fireside

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 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 8^th
Taiyon Coleman, Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
Memoir

Wednesday, January 15^th
Jokeda “JoJo” Bell, Red Stained: The Life of Hilda Simms
Nonfiction

Wednesday, January 22^nd
Naomi Cohn, The Braille Encyclopedia
Poetry/Memoir

Wednesday, January 29^th
Pallavi Dixit, Edison
Novel