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Bailey Hutchinson – 07/02/2020

Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of Deep Cuts. In this series, we’ll be diving in with some of our authors and discussing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their books. This time around, I am beyond thrilled to be in conversation with the winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry PrizeAllison Adair.

Her recently-released poetry collection, The Clearing, is a hypnotic exercise in tangible language that verbs us through reflections on motherhood, on imagination, on desire, on flora and fauna, and more. Her poems ask readers to consider how close language can get...

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Milkweed Staff – 06/23/2020

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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Milkweed Staff – 06/16/2020

A letter from our monthly newsletter, The Milkweed Chronicle. 

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Milkweed Staff – 05/13/2020

Watch: What Matters Most with Beth Dooley | Milkweed Editions

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Every Monday, author Beth...

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Bailey Hutchinson – 05/08/2020

Welcome, friends, to the latest installment of 5 Reasons to Teach This Book! In this interview series, we examine what we can learn from Milkweed’s titles by discussing our books with educators, authors, and booksellers. This month, we’re featuring The Blue Sky, a novel that originally joined our catalogue in 2006 but will be reissued this summer as part of the Seedbank series.

The Blue Sky is a tale of family—blood and found—and the distances we travel to preserve our chosen bonds. In fictionalizing his own childhood,...

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Milkweed Staff – 05/07/2020

Watch: What Matters Most with Margaret Renkl | Milkweed Editions

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For the third episode of...

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Milkweed Staff – 04/30/2020

Watch: What Matters Most: Su Hwang | Milkweed Editions

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Welcome to the second episode of What Matters Most,...

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Milkweed Staff – 04/23/2020

Watch: What Matters Most: Adam Clay | Milkweed Editions

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Introducing What Matters Most, a new video series by and...

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Milkweed Staff – 04/20/2020

Milkweed Editions is pleased to announce that torrin a. greathouse has won the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. For her poetry collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, greathouse will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions this December. 

torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018) and assistant editor of The Shallow Ends. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of...

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Bailey Hutchinson – 04/09/2020

Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of Deep Cuts. In this series, we’ll be diving in with some of our authors and discussing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their books. Oh, and real quick: this is Bailey Hutchinson, and I’m honored to be taking up the curatorial mantle for Julian Randall, the inaugural Milkweed Fellow, who created this series.

Friends, I’m feeling strange, and that’s in no small part because I’ve been alone in my apartment for over three weeks. It’s likely many of you find yourselves in a similar situation: self-isolation, while...

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