Duluth, MN
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In Person: Karen Babine at Zenith Bookstore
Join Karen Babine at Zenith Bookstore Thursday, May 29, for a reading and discussion of her forthcoming book, The Allure of Elsewhere. Link forthcoming.
Minneapolis, MN
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Milkweed Presents: The (Near and Far) Future of Poetry with Chris Santiago
Join Milkweed Editions as we welcome Chris Santiago back to Minneapolis! He will be joined by poets and artists Kathryn Nuernberger, MC Hyland, & Rebecca Lehmann, and will talk broadly about pressures to (and possibilities for) poetry, everything from AI to changes in publishing and academic institutions to the new political climate for creative arts.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Chris Santiago’s debut collection Tula was selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Copper Nickel…
Minneapolis, MN
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Milkweed Presents: Chris La Tray on Houselessness, Deportation, and the Landless Indians
Please join Milkweed Editions as we welcome Chris La Tray back to Minneapolis! The author of Becoming Little Shell, One-Sentence Journal, and Descended from a Travel-Worn Satchel will speak to us about houselessness, deportation, and the landless Indians.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, he is also the author of One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large, which won the 2018 Montana Book Award and a 2019 High…
Authors / Interviews
The Salt Stones: Author Q&A with Helen Whybrow
We recently sat down with author (and Milkweed editor-at-large) Helen Whybrow to talk about her forthcoming book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. Touching on everything from cycles of life in nature to the art of belonging to parenting on a farm, read on for a taste of what’s to come in this profoundly moving book.
Photograph by Helen Whybrow
Milkweed Staff: A favorite section from the book is your description of belonging actually being a practice of participation. Can you say a bit more about how that looks as a Shepherd, mother, and activist?
Helen Whybrow: Belonging is something so…
Sangamithra Iyer
Sangamithra Iyer is an environmental planner, engineer, and writer. She is the recipient of a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant, a Café Royal Foundation Literature Grant and the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Fellowship at the New York Public Library.
Jennifer Eli Bowen
Jennifer Eli Bowen is a writer, arts instructor, and editor.
Lewis Hyde
Lewis Hyde is a poet, essayist, translator, and cultural critic. A MacArthur Fellow and renowned author, his previous books include The Gift, Trickster Makes This World, and A Primer for Forgetting.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau is one of the most widely recognized names in American letters. Born in 1817, he wrote extensively on naturalism, transcendentalism, philosophy, global and American politics, and abolition.
Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, which won the United Kingdom’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023—the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize.
Keith S. Wilson
Keith S. Wilson is a game designer, an Affrilachian Poet, and a Cave Canem fellow.