Independent Bookstore Passport 2025
April 23 through April 27, 2025
Hundreds of people took part in celebrating and supporting our local independent bookstores by picking up a free Twin Cities Independent Bookstore Passport and filling them up with stamps! See more info here.
Damion Searls
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Rain Taxi held a literary salon celebrating the publication of The Mariner's Mirror, poems by acclaimed writer and translator Damion Searls! You can purchase this chapbook here.
Vincent Katz
Thursday, June 12, Milkweed Books
Rain Taxi and Milkweed Books welcomed poet Vincent Katz to the Twin Cities! Katz will read from his newest collection, Daffodil and Other Poems, and then was joined in conversation by local poet Dobby Gibson.
Rain Taxi 30th Anniversary Exhibit & Opening Night Party
Exhibit at Open Book from October 3 through December 15
Opening Night Reception, Tuesday, October 7
Rain Taxi had an Anniversary Exhibit re-do after its 25th Anniversary Exhibit shut down due to the pandemic. Now in its 30th year, Rain Taxi provided a visual cornucopia of artwork, archival documents, and literary ephemera from the past three decades. The grand opening party featured an invocation by poet Jim Moore, an activation by artist Anne Labovitz, a reminiscence by author Mary Moore Easter, an excerpt from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard performed by theater makers Dominique Serrand and Nathan Keepers of the Jungle Theater, and the unveiling of Rain Taxi’s 30th Anniversary Broadside.
Rain Taxi's 25th Annual Twin Cities Book Festival
Opening Night Party, Friday, November 7, 2025
Festival, Saturday, November 8, 2025
The 25th Annual Twin Cities Book Festival moved to the Union Depot in Saint Paul and attracted nearly 10,000 people! See the full recap here.