Milkweed at AWP: The Language in Question, ft. Nicky Beer, Benjamin Garcia, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Michael Kleber-Diggs, & torrin a. greathouse

Saturday, March 26, 2022 - 9:00am

AWP

122AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level

Philadelphia, PA 19107

United States

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!

Nicky Beer

Nicky Beer is the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes.

Benjamin Garcia

Benjamin Garcia’s first collection of poems, Thrown in the Throat, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley

Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the author of Dēmos, Colonize Me and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, winners and finalists of over a dozen awards.

Michael Kleber-Diggs

Michael Kleber-Diggs's debut collection of poems, Worldly Things, won the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Michael teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop.

Concrete and evocative, Wound from the Mouth of a Wound is a testament to persistence, even when the body is not allowed to thrive.

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Milkweed at AWP: The Language in Question, ft. Nicky Beer, Benjamin Garcia, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, Michael Kleber-Diggs, & torrin a. greathouse

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