Loyalty will welcome Ama Codjoe and Ross Gay to celebrate Bluest Nude: Poems! This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast. You can donate along with your registration. Donations will go to Keep Our Clinics. There will be an option to purchase the book during the event.
Celebrate the Hudson Valley Writers Center’s Fall Launch Reading with Kathy Fagan, David Baker, and Chen Chen. Kathy Fagan will read from her latest collection, Bad Hobby.
This event will take place both in person and via Zoom.
John Cotter is the author of Losing Music and the novel Under the Small Lights.
“With Milkweed I thought, ‘this is where my book belongs,’ because of their commitment to taking care of the earth, as well as high-quality literature. I wanted to publish with Milkweed, because I knew it would give me a platform for having a conversation on a broader scale about issues that I really care about.”
“Milkweed books are instruction manuals for how to love the world, in all of its glorious manifestations, but also how to be responsible for it, for the planet and for each other.”
“I am working with a dream publisher. The book has a talented team behind it invested in its success. I have a talented team behind me invested in my growth and development. I’m having conversations on big stages with leading writers and thinkers. I thought I was launching a book, but now I feel like I’m launching my career.”
After two years of virtual events, we are thrilled to host Milkweed’s annual Book Lovers Ball in person again. Poetry Now: the Art of Connection will celebrate poetry’s breadth and power. Headlined by Ada Limón, newly appointed poet laureate, National Book Critics Circle Award winner, and host of The Slowdown podcast, and featuring a host of other brilliant Milkweed poets, the event also includes dinner, drinks, music, and a silent art auction.
We are pleased to present a conversation between Juliet Patterson and Michael Kleber-Diggs on September 15th at Open Book Performance Hall in celebration of Juliet’s new book, Sinkhole.
Juliet will read from Sinkhole and then Michael will lead Juliet in conversation. She will be available for book signing after the event.
Join us at 6:00 PM at Milkweed Books located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with Juliet in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!
Green Light will launch acclaimed emerging poet Ama Codjoe’s first full-length collection, Bluest Nude—hailed by Tracy K. Smith as “an ecstatic encounter.” “The end of the world has ended,” Codjoe’s speaker announces, “and desire is still / all I crave.” Shifting between the role of artist and subject, seer and seen, these poems ask what the act of looking does to a person—public looking, private looking, and that most intimate, singular spectacle of looking at one’s self. Dialoguing with and through art, Bluest Nude considers alternative ways of holding and constructing the self. Codjoe joins…
