Milkweed Editions
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Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States
VIRTUAL EVENT. Free and open to the public. Register here!
Join Milkweed Editions for a virtual celebration of National Poetry Month with poets Nicky Beer, Hayan Charara, and Brian Tierney! The conversation will be moderated by Milkweed’s Associate Editor Bailey Hutchinson. Register here!
Nicky Beer
Nicky Beer is the author of Real Phonies and Genuine Fakes. She is a bi/queer writer, and the author of two other collections of poems, The Octopus Game and The Diminishing House, both winners of the Colorado Book Award.
Hayan Charara
Hayan Charara is the author of These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit. He is a poet, children’s book author, essayist, and editor.
Brian Tierney
Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, which was selected by Randall Mann as the winner of the 20-2021 Jake Adam York Prize.
What is illusion—a deception, or a revelation? What is a poem—the truth, or “a diverting flash, / a mirror showing everything / but itself”?
A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good—a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.
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.