Los Angeles, CA —
LA Times Festival of Books: Nicky Beer on the Poetry Stage
Visit the LA Times Festival of Books’ poetry stage for Nicky Beer’s reading from Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. More details here!
Philadelphia, PA —
Milkweed at AWP: The Language in Question, ft. Nicky Beer, Benjamin Garcia, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Michael Kleber-Diggs, & torrin a. greathouse
The poets in this reading, with recent books published by Milkweed Editions, all illustrate in varying ways the press’s ongoing commitment to art that uses language to trouble and interrogate the status quo. Our poetries are radical, queer, disabled, genre-bending. We seek to celebrate our power as creators—come join us!
Authors
Dance of the Natural World: A Cover Image Story
Haŋ (hello) Milkweed community, my name is Kachina Yeager and I am the Editorial Fellow here at Milkweed Editions. Our team is delighted to share with you the cover for Debra Magpie Earling’s forthcoming reissue of Perma Red—out August 2022. I was lucky enough to get to chat with Debra Magpie Earling about this remarkable novel, and I’m so excited to share that conversation with our wider community!
Debra Magpie Earling
Debra Magpie Earling is the author of Perma Red and The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.
New York, NY —
The Poetry Project & Unrestricted Interest Present: Hannah Emerson, with Farnoosh Fathi and Tyler Rai
Please join The Poetry Project and Unrestricted Interest in celebrating Hannah Emerson’s debut collection of poems, The Kissing of Kissing. Emerson, together with Farnoosh Fathi and Tyler Rai, will use language, movement, and performance to explore the abundance of interconnectivity, the ever-present light, teaching us how to resource-share like trees so that we might all grow together. Learn more here!
Adam Wolfond
Adam Wolfond is the author of The Wanting Way. He is a nonspeaking autistic artist, poet, and university lecturer whose work has been featured in multimedia exhibitions, documentary films, academic journals, and philosophical treatises.
Authors
letters to the gut house: collaboration & decolonial love in Hawaiʻi | A Cover Image Story
Jocelyn Kapumealani Ng is my collaboration soulmate. As queer ʻŌiwi femme creatives, we both use art to uplift and ask better questions of shapeshifters. We return to our own bodies to make — and to make possible — decolonial love. A Hawaiian multi-dimensional artist, Jocelyn uses special effects make-up and digital photography to transform people into their own mythic figures. Importantly, her practice is based on dialogue and trust. She asks for your reasons. Why do you come to be transformed? Why this myth? Why this body? As I wrote and re-wrote Ask the Brindled, Jocelyn and I worked together to dig deeper into moʻo mythology, moʻo poetics, and queer ʻŌiwi femme approaches to art.
Chicago, IL —
Mercy Street Reading Series ft. Brian Tierney
Join the Mercy Street Reading Series for a virtual reading with Brian Tierney, author of Rise and Float, and Patrycja Humienik, Phil Goldstein, Ann Hudson, Brian Simoneau, Leticia Urieta, and Connie Voisine. Register here!
Detroit, MI —
Room Project's Care Package: A Poetry Reading to Celebrate Jennifer Huang's Return Flight
Join Room Project for a reading to celebrate Jennifer Huang’s debut poetry collection, Return Flight, alongside three phenomenal poets Kemi Alabi, Jenny Qi, and Courtney Faye Taylor. Register here!
St. Paul, MN —
Thin Places Virtual Tour: Kerri ní Dochartaigh & Kathryn Savage at Subtext Books
Join Subtext Books for a virtual reading and conversation with Kerri ní Dochartaigh about her debut memoir Thin Places. Dochartaigh will be joined by Kathryn Savage, author of the forthcoming lyric essay collection, Groundglass. Register here!