SIGNINGS
Thursday, March 24
11am — Ada Limón
12pm — Brian Tierney
12:30pm — Kazim Ali
1pm — Wayne Miller
3pm — Nicky Beer
4pm — Eric Pankey
4:30pm — Ken Kalfus
Friday, March 25
11am — Michael Bazzett
12pm — John James
12:30pm — Benjamin Garcia
1pm — Jos Charles
2pm — Allison Adair
2:30pm — Su Hwang
3pm — Michael Kleber-Diggs
4pm — Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Saturday, March 26
1pm — Devon Walker-Figueroa
2pm — Kathryn Cowles
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
4:30–6:30 p.m. ET
Salon E, Marriott Philadelphia Downtown, Level 5
Join us for a celebratory, socially-distanced happy hour, theatre-style conversation with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and special guest January Gill O’Neil, and book signing featuring a silent auction, pop-up art table, and book sales.
Suggested $25 donation includes a drink ticket for the signature “Lime Glow” cocktail from
Love, Tito’s and surprise swag bag.
All proceeds benefit diversity, access, and inclusion initiatives at AWP.
Friday, March 25
12:10–1:25 p.m. ET
Terrace Ballroom I & II Pennsylvania Convention Center, 400 Level
Milkweed authors discuss the intersections of literary culture and the natural world: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders; Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light; and Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places. Deep attentiveness to the environment—with its diverse landscapes, wild creatures, and shifting climates—provides these writers with dynamic pathways to explore regeneration, identity, and wonder in their work. Moderated by Animals Strike Curious Poses author Elena Passarello.
This event will also be livestreamed.
Saturday, March 26
9:00 a.m. ET
122AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
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!
Visit Milkweed’s booth #742 to get discounted books, signed books, and special deals:
Buy 3 books, get a tote bag free!*
*While supplies last.
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts and lessons.
From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction—a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.
In building relationships with his former neighbors, Ali explores questions of land and power―and in remembering a lost connection to this place, finally finds a home he might belong to.
In Thin Places, a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, Kerri ní Dochartaigh explores how nature kept her sane and helped her heal after The Troubles,
From the celebrated author of feeld comes a formally commanding third collection, dexterously recounting the survival of a period suffused with mourning.
From poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.
From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.
In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Margaret Renkl’s columns offer a dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville.
A haunting novel spanning several generations, following a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life and their sacrifices to protect what matters most.
Selected by Jos Charles as the winner of the 2021 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, Return Flight is a lush reckoning: with inheritance, with body, with trauma, with desire—and with the many tendons in between.
What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?
Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page.
From sixteen-year-old Dara McAnulty, a globally renowned figure in the youth climate activist movement, comes a memoir about loving the natural world and fighting to save it.
From U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón comes The Carrying—her most powerful collection yet.
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, the poems of Worldly Things offer needed guidance on ways forward—toward radical kindness and a socially responsible poetics.
A boy asks his father what it means to die; a poet wonders whether we can truly know another’s thoughts; a man tries to understand how extreme violence and grace can occupy the same space. These are the questions tackled in these poems...
Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive.
