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Excerpt: Kazim Ali's Northern Light
An excerpt from Kazim Ali’s book, Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water, forthcoming March 2021.
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Impulse of the American "We": A Cover Image Story
Author Wayne Miller reflects on the artistic process of creating the cover of his collection, We the Jury.
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Elegant Body Horror: A Cover Image Story
Author torrin a. greathouse reflects on the artistic process of creating the cover of her collection, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound.
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What Matters Most | Ep. 4 Beth Dooley
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Every Monday, author Beth Dooley and her son Kip have a standing zoom call. On their call, they cook a meal together, without a recipe, using only whatever staples they have on hand. They also talk—a lot!—about limits (real and metaphorical), substitutions, and what it means to ‘make do’ without feeling deprived. In Beth’s words, “it’s not really about being optimistic; it’s about living within our means and allowing what we DO have to spark creativity.” They’ve dubbed their…
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What Matters Most | Ep. 3 Margaret Renkl
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For the third episode of What Matters Most, author Margaret Renkl joins us from her backyard and gives us a personal tour of her “pollinator garden,” where she has intentionally planted seeds that serve as refuge and fuel for the bees and butterflies who traverse her home in middle-Tennessee.
“It’s really a great comfort—if we had to be locked in our houses anyway— that it happened in the springtime when there is so much new life and that is…
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What Matters Most | Ep. 2 Su Hwang
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Welcome to the second episode of What Matters Most, a new video series by and for the Milkweed community. This week, poet Su Hwang invites us into her home and reflects on the ideas of interconnectedness and earthly wisdom that are comforting to her. Su also asks us to reflect on how we can sustain ourselves and each other through this difficult time—finding solace in the words of fellow Milkweed author, Robin Wall Kimmerer.
“When I…
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What Matters Most | Ep. 1 Adam Clay
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Introducing What Matters Most, a new video series by and for the Milkweed community. Each week, one of our authors will reflect on daily nourishments in their lives — people, objects, traditions, places, plants, and more—that bring them strength, joy, solace, or peace. What Matters Most was born out of our collective acknowledgment that times of uncertainty cement the importance of the things—big and small—that give our lives meaning. For us at Milkweed, it is our community of…