Events

October 2024

Wednesday
16
6:00 PM
CST

In person: Didi Jackson book launch with Milkweed Books

Please join Milkweed Books as we welcome DIDI JACKSON in celebrating her newest collection My Infinity from Red Hen Press. Poets KATE NUERNBERGER, PETER CAMPION, and MITA MAHATO will be joining to for a lively discussion around ekphrastic work and how poetry and visual art intersect.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

In her second collection, DIDI JACKSON continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist. These poems investigate both sacred and natural spaces. Her poems move grief and emotional suffering to language as a site of recovery and renewal. Much of…

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

6122152540
Thursday
17
6:00 PM
Pacific time

In person: Ellen Wayland-Smith appearing at Skylight Books

Join Ellen Wayland-Smith for a reading and discussion of The Science of Last Things: Essays on Deep Time and the Boundaries of the Self.

This event is free and open to the public.

Los Angeles, CA

Skylight Books
1818 North Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90027
United States

Friday
18
6:00 PM
ET

In Person: Lauren Russell appearing at Bird in Hand

Join Lauren Russell for a reading from her latest collection, A Window that can Neither Open Nor Close. She will be joined by Soham Patel and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram.

This event is free and open to the public.

Baltimore, MD

Bird in Hand
11 E 33rd St,
Baltimore, MD 21218
United States

Friday
18
6:00 PM
Eastern time

In person: Lauren Russell appearing at Bird in Hand Coffee & Books

With excitement, Bird in Hand announces this hometown event for poet and professor Lauren Russell’s new poetry collection, A Window That Can Neither Open Nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance! Fellow poets Soham Patel and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will join to read alongside Russell in this celebratory evening.

This event is free and open to the public.

Baltimore, MD

Bird in Hand Coffee & Books
11 East 33rd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
United States

Monday
21
6:30 PM
Central time

In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Moon Palace Books

Join Heidi Barr (Minnesota author of Collisions of Earth and Sky & 12 Tiny Things), Chris La Tray (Montana’s Poet Laureate and author of Becoming Little Shell), and Krissy Kludt (Wisconsin-based director of Writing the Wild) on Monday, October 21st at 6:30pm as they discuss Stories from the Trail, a new anthology about moving through wild spaces and share more stories and readings from recent work.

**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**

This event is free and open to the public. Masks are required in store.

Minneapolis, MN

Moon Palace Books
3032 Minnehaha Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55406
United States

Thursday
24
6:00 PM

In person: 2024 Book Lovers Ball

Experience the power of life-changing literature with Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, author of the forthcoming memoir Becoming Little Shell. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.

Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

Reserve tickets here. Please contact Madi McLaughlin, madi_mclaughlin@milkweed.org, (612) 215-2559, with questions.

Minneapolis, MN

Machine Shop
300 Second Street Southeast
Minneapolis, MN 55414
United States

Saturday
26
3:00 PM
Central time

In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Prairie Lights Books

Join Chris La Tray for a reading and discussion of Becoming Little Shell.

This event is free and open to the public.

Iowa City, IA

Prairie Lights Books
15 S Dubuque St
Iowa City, IA 52240
United States

November 2024

Friday
1
6:00 PM

In person: Okwudili Nebeolisa book launch with Donika Kelly

Please join us as we welcome debut author OKWUDILI NEBEOLISA to Milkweed Books to read from his collection Terminal Maladies. He will be joined in conversation by poet DONIKA KELLY.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a mother and son and their emotional journey during her battle with cancer. Throughout the book, Nebeolisa attempts to reconcile his guilt of starting a new life in the United States, far away from his mother and his home in Nigeria.

Depicting tender moments, Terminal Maladies

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
7
6:00 PM
CST

In person: J.P. White book launch with Glenn Miller

Join Milkweed Books as we launch local author J.P. WHITE’s new novel, The Last Tale of Norah Bow. He will read from the book, engage in a conversation with GLENN MILLER about craft and character, and open it up to audience questions and book signing.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

In 1926, during Prohibition, Vital Bow is abducted at gunpoint during dinner at the family cottage in Rye Beach, Ohio. His intrepid fourteen-year-old daughter, Norah Bow, discovers her father’s involvement in a rum-running gang operating on Lake Erie and determines to sail north to rescue him. En route, Norah rescues…

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
12
6:00 PM
CST

In person: Kenzie Allen book launch with Kimberly Blaeser

Please join us as we welcome debut author KENZIE ALLEN to Milkweed Books to read from her collection Cloud Missives. She will be joined in conversation by poet and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, KIMBERLY BLAESER.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and forgotten histories, before arriving at…

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

Minneapolis, MN

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

(612) 215-2540
Thursday
14
6:00 PM
CST

In person: Kinsale Drake book launch with Heid E. Erdrich

Please join us as we welcome debut poet KINSALE DRAKE to Milkweed Books to read from her collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket. She will be joined by Minneapolis Poet Laureate HEID E. ERDRICH.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethno-musicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and re-rights what it means to be Indigenous, queer, and even formerly-emo in the…

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
21
7:00 PM

Literary Witness: Time Remaining by James P. Lenfestey

Join us a book launch celebration featuring poetry readings from Time Remaining: Body Odes, Praise Songs, Oddities, Amazements by the author James P. Lenfestey.

This event is free and open to the public and is part of Plymouth Congregational Church’s Literary Witness Series and co-presented by Milkweed Editions and The Loft Literary Center. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

This event is FREE and open to the public, please register here.

Minneapolis, MN

Plymouth Congregational Church
1900 Nicollet Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55403
United States

Saturday
30
10:00 AM
Central Time

Small Business Saturday at Milkweed Books

Join Milkweed Books for Small Business Saturday on November 30! As a nonprofit literary press with an indie bookstore, we rely on readers’ support and we’re excited to celebrate you. We will have sips and snacks, staff recommendations, and special promotions throughout the day. Not only do we carry Milkweed Editions titles, but we also support other independent, small, and values-aligned presses in-store. We look forward to seeing you here!

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Minneapolis, MN

Milkweed Books
1011 Washington Avenue South
Suite 107
Minneapolis, MN 55104-1277
United States

December 2024

Tuesday
3
1:00 PM

You Are Here: Poetry in Parks, Saguaro National Park

On December 3 at 1 p.m., the public is invited to join Ada Limón for the National Parks Service “Poetry in Parks” unveiling. This event is open to the public.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will unveil a picnic table with an overlay featuring the poem “Na:nko Ma:s Cewagĭ / Cloud Song” by Ofelia Zepeda.

Seven national parks, including Cape Cod National Seashore, were selected by Limón to be part of her signature project “You are Here: Poetry in Parks.” The initiative is a partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the Poetry Society of…

Tucson, AZ

Saguaro National Park
Mica View Picnic Area
Mica View Trail
Tucson, AZ 85748
United States

Wednesday
11
6:00 PM
CST

Milkweed Presents: A Craft Conversation with Rick Barot and Danez Smith

For the last installment of our fall Milkweed Presents series, we welcome poet RICK BAROT as we celebrate his latest book, Moving the Bones. He will be joined in reading and craft conversation with DANEZ SMITH.

 

ABOUT THE BOOKS

Moving the Bones is a vulnerable and honest collection of poems exploring lineage, love, and the pandemic, from one of the most acclaimed poets of his generation.

“You are told to believe in one paradise / and then there is the paradise you come to know,” begins Rick Barot. What follows is an account of the rich and thorny valley…

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

Minneapolis, MN

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

6122152540

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