May 15: Monroe County Historical Society. SRS talk on "Staying Put," 7:00 p.m., at Monroe County History Center, 202 E. Sixth St., Bloomington, Indiana. For information: 812-332-2517.

May 18: Jordan River Fest: A Celebration of Art, Literature, Music and the Environment. Bloomington, Indiana. SRS talk on Midwestern writing and Midwestern rivers. 2:00-4:00 p.m. Special Exhibits Gallery, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana. For information: Nan Brewer at nabrewer@indiana.edu or 812-855-1040 or click here.

June 1-8: Wildbranch Writing Workshop, Croftsbury, Vermont. Weeklong workshop: "Personal Stories and Great Realities." For information: Jennifer Sahn at jsahn@orionsociety.org or 413-528-4422; http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/AD.wildbranch.html.

June 11: White Violet Center, St. Mary of the Woods, Indiana. Details to come. For information: or Ann Sullivan at asulliva@spsmw.org or 812-535-2930 or http://www.spsmw.org/cgi-bin/site.pl?ecojustice.

June 27: Severson Dells Nature Center, Rockford, Illinois. SRS reading along with Robert Michael Pyle. For information: Don Miller at don@seversondells.org or 815-335-2915.

June 29-July 6: Split Rock Arts Program, Cloquet Forestry Center, Cloquet, Minnesota. Weeklong workshop: "Person, Planet, Cosmos: Imagining Ourselves in Nature." For information: splitrockarts@umn.edu or 612-625-8100. Or click here for workshop description and registration information.

July 13: Idaho Humanities Council Institute, Caldwell, Idaho. SRS to speak on "First Child in the Woods: On Learning to Love the Earth" as keynote for humanities institute. For information: Rick Ardinger at rick@idahohumanities.org or 208-345-5346.

July 26: Fermilab Arts Series, Battavia, Illinois. "Wilderness Plots" Show. SRS in performance with Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Michael White, and Tom Roznowski. 8:00 p.m. For information: Janet MacKay Gailbrath at mackay@fnal.gov or 630-840-2059. Click here for ticket information and directions.

September 10: Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin. Reading by SRS at 8:00 p.m. in Eaton Chapel on the Beloit College campus. For information: Shawn Gillen at gillens@beloit.edu.

September 13: Buskirk-Chumley Theatre, Bloomington, Indiana. "Wilderness Plots" Show. SRS in performance with Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Michael White, and Tom Roznowski. 8:00 p.m. 114 East Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, Indiana. For information: 812-323-3020.

October 11: Rich Warren’s Folk Stage & Midnight Special - WFMT Chicago. "Wilderness Plots" Show. SRS in performance with Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Michael White, and Tom Roznowski.Details to come. 8:00 p.m.

October 15-16: Civic Tourism Conference, Providence, Rhode Island. SRS keynote address, 6:45 p.m. Details to come. For information: Natalie Carter at 401-724-2200 or natalie@tourblackstone.com.

October 19-25: Residency, Andrews Experimental Forest, Cascade Mountains, Oregon. In association with The Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, and the U.S. Forest Service. For information: Charles Goodrich at Charles.Goodrich@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-6198; http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/.

October 28-30: Georgia College, Milledgeville, Georgia. SRS visiting classes and giving public reading. Details to come. For information: Karen McElmurray @karen_mcelmurray@msn.com.

November 13-14: Louisiana College, Alexandria, Louisiana. SRS to deliver keynote address at Louisiana College Composition Conference. Details to come. For information: Ginger Jones at gingerjones27@suddenlink.net or 318-427-4475.

November 20-21: Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. "Wilderness Plots" Show. SRS in performance with Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Michael White, and Tom Roznowski. Details to come.

November 22: Bridge View Center, Ottumwa, Iowa. "Wilderness Plots" Show. SRS in performance with Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Krista Detor, Michael White, and Tom Roznowski. 7:30 p.m. For information: 641-684-7000 or click here.