BOOK TALK: The Weedy Garden with Margaret Renkl and Billy Renkly
Thu, Mar 19
|Ijams Visitor Center
Join Union Ave. Books and Ijams for a night with renowned author, Margaret Renkle and illustrator Billy Renkl for a look at their new book The Weedy Garden on March 19.
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Ijams Visitor Center, 2915 Island Home Ave, Knoxville, TN 37920, USA
About the Event
Union Ave Books is thrilled to present Margaret Renkl and Billy Renkl for The Weedy Garden. This free event for all ages will take place on March 19th at 6pm at Ijams Nature Center. Please RSVP so we know to expect you!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, which won a 2024 Southern Book Prize and was a New York Timesbestseller as well as Reese’s Book Club’s 100th pick. Her earlier titles are Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss(2019), which won the Reed Environmental Writing Award in 2020; and Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the American South (2021), which won both the Southern Book Prize and the PEN/Diamonstein–Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay in 2022. Since 2017, Renkl has served as a contributing opinion writer for theNew York Times, where her essays appear on Mondays. The founding…