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Milkweed Books Birthday Bash

Milkweed Books invites you to celebrate one year of our independent brick-and-mortar bookstore’s reopening with a special one-day-only shopping experience! Browse the store with complimentary snacks and refreshments as we provide exclusive sales for the day to ring in the occasion!

This year, we’re bringing a new promotion to the store for one day only. On Saturday, August 26 only, a select number of our bestsellers from our first year back—published by Milkweed Editions and beyond—will be available for 10% off. Plus, our booksellers have also each selected three of their favorite titles that…

Authors / What Matters Most

On K Iver’s Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco—an elegy, an ode, an opening

Briana Gwin — 06/16/2023

“In the beginning, yes, a garden. As lush as you’re imagining.” So begins K. Iver’s tender and heart-wrenching debut; what follows is a coming of age story of creation and demise, a love story upended by suicide. The collection’s fleeting first images of doting parents (a fantasy), dogwoods in bloom, a boy—later referred to by the poems’ speaker as Missy—who “looks at you the way someone must have when you were born” quickly give way to images of a paternal pattern of abuse, the cold interior of a psychiatric hospital, a mental-health-crisis-turned-exorcism, and in a poem called “god,” a closed-casket…

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2023 Book Lovers Ball

Experience the power of life-changing literature with preeminent climate change writer Elizabeth Rush, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore and the forthcoming The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.

Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

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