Events

January 2025

Tuesday
7
6:00 PM
CST

In person: A reading and social hour with Ellen Wayland-Smith & Colin Hamilton

Milkweed Presents Ellen Wayland-Smith, author of The Science of Last Things, in Minneapolis to read from her collection and join in conversation with author Colin Hamilton, followed by a social hour with refreshments.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Colin Hamilton has helped create a library, a center for…

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE RSVP HERE.

Minneapolis, MN

Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States

(612) 215-2540
Tuesday
14
7:00 PM

Rick Barot at Bookshop Santa Cruz

The Hive Live! presents an evening of poetry with Rick Barot.

This event is free and open to the public, registration link forthcoming.

Santa Cruz, CA

Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
United States

Tuesday
21
7:00 PM
EST

In-Person: Latif Askia Ba and Jay Deshpande at Brooklyn Poets

Join Brooklyn Poets in partnership with Books are Magic to celebrate the launch of Latif Askia Ba’s The Choreic Period. Latif Askia Ba and Jay Deshpande will both read their work, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.

This is a ticketed event; all attendees will be required to wear a face mask at all times. Purchase tickets here.

Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Poets
144 Montague St
2nd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11201
United States

Saturday
25
6:30 PM

Milkweed Books and Bell Museum present Finding Inspiration in the Collections: A reading by Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger

Join us at Milkweed Books to hear Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger read, discuss science writing and finding inspiration from museum collections. Students from the workshop will be invited–but not required–to share their writing at the open mic after the reading and conversation.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

MARLENE ZUK is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the evolution of animal sexual behavior and animal communication. The author of Paleofantasy and Sex on Six Legs, among other works, her latest book is Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man’s Test, which was…

This event is preceded by a workshop at Bell Museum. Guests are encouraged to attend both, but this reading is open to the public. See the link for more information on the workshop. RSVP here to the reading.

Minneapolis, MN

Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States

(612) 215-2540
Wednesday
29
6:00 PM

In person: Kimiko Hahn at Milkweed Books with torrin a. greathouse & Michael Kleber-Diggs

Join Milkweed Books as we present poet KIMIKO HAHN to celebrate her newest collection, The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. She will be joined by torrin a. greathouse and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments…

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. PLEASE RSVP HERE.

Minneapolis, MN

Milkweed Books
1011 S Washington Avenue
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55415
United States

(612) 215-2540
Thursday
30
12:00 PM
CT

Virtual: GRIST and METAMORPHOSIS Contributors at the Great Northern Book Festival

Join GRIST in partnership with Milkweed Editions for “Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions,” a virtual session exploring the themes of the upcoming Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis. Panelist information forthcoming.

This event is free to attend and open to the public. Learn more and get tickets here.

Online
St. Paul, MN

The Great Northern Festival
101 Snelling Lake Road
St. Paul, MN 55111
United States

February 2025

May 2025

Sunday
18
12:00 PM
Greenwich Mean Time

In person: Kerri ní Dochartaigh appearing at Nature Culture’s Ireland retreat

Join author Kerri ní Dochartaigh in prioritizing your creativity for ten days in spring 2025 at the seaside village of Doolin, County Clare, Ireland.

This retreat is led by Ryan Dennis of The Milkhouse Rural Writers Collective; co-organized with NatureCulture/Writing the Land.

This is a ticketed workshop. Register here.

County Clare,

Teergonean
Doolin
County Clare
V95 XR0K
Ireland