Being a mother may not be the easiest of jobs, but being the most influential person in most women’s lives has its rewards. In Kathryn Kysar’s journal Riding Shotgun: Women Write about Their Mothers, various authors, teachers, scholars, and mothers tell the heartwarming and powerful stories about the mothers who have loved and raised them. A true Midwesterner, Kathryn Kysar has won numerous awards for her poetry and received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Minnesota State Arts Board. Kysar, along with several other writers in the collection, will be doing a selection of readings from Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers in various locations throughout the Twin Cities in celebration of Mother's Day.
7 p.m., Minneapolis Central Library, 612-630-6174.