Events

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Milkweed Books with delightful springtime snacks and sips! We invite you to stop in, shop from our array of books and broadsides, and share in the joy and community of local independent bookstores during one of the biggest annual events in the bookselling world.

We will be offering special one-day-only promotions:

-Buy three books, get a little surprise
-Buy four books, get a big prize
-Buy 10 or more books, get a discount of a decent size

Sign up to become a Milkweed member to receive an exclusive tote bag and member discount! Learn more…

Join Chris Santiago with Romaine Washington at the Claremont Helen Redwick Library for a reading and discussion of his work, as part of the library’s Fourth Saturday program.

Join Lauren Russell with Joanna Fuhrman and Alina Leskova at Philadelphia’s Small Works Gallery for a poetry reading and discussion.

Join Helen Whybrow at this year’s Northshire Booktopia, a weekend-long festival of author talks, signings, and celebration. Other authors presenting will be Julia Alvarez, Jessica Anya Blau, Harry Bliss, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Jennifer Haigh, Jean Hanff Korelitz, Stuart Nadler, Amy Shearn, and Shubha Sunder.

Join Kathy Fagan for “Truth: A Poet’s Raw Material,” a virtual workshop through the Hudson Valley Writers Center. For more information on the workshop and purchasing tickets, click here.

Join Jennifer Kabat for the launch of her newest book, Nightshining, in partnership with Diamond Hollow Books at the Andes Hotel. More information on the event here.

Join Rick Barot with Mark Irwin and Matthew Gellman at Beyond Baroque for a celebration of new poetry. A reading will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Join friends and colleagues of the late acclaimed poet Bill Holm as they launch their record album of Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death, a musical setting of his namesake poem composed by Minnesota native Martha Helen Schmidt.

The event will feature a screening of the Pioneer PBS documentary about the song cycle which received a 2023 Regional Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences — Upper Midwest Chapter. The evening will also include select readings from Holm’s literary oeuvre by friends and acclaimed colleagues and will conclude with a performance of selections of…

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health for the Bundle Symposium Keynote Address. This talk will explore the dominant themes of Braiding Sweetgrass, which includes cultivation of a reciprocal relationship with the living world.

Join Rebecca Spiegel at Tattered Cover Bookstore to celebrate the release of Robin Walter’s debut poetry collection LITTLE MERCY. Link forthcoming.

Join Jennifer Kabat in conversation with Summ J Hart at Split Rock Books for a reading and discussion of her newest book, Nightshining.

Join Jennifer Kabat at One Grand Books for a reading and discussion of her latest book Nightshining.

Join Chris Santiago at Vroman’s Bookstore for a reading and discussion of his latest collection, Small Wars Manual. More info forthcoming.

Join Diane Wilson for the Nature Everywhere Conference keynote panel on the main stage. The session will be followed by a book signing.

Join the Poetry Foundation for an evening of poetry readings by Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient Kimiko Hahn and Sarah Ghazal Ali, Mónica de la Torre, and Rosalie Moffett, to celebrate Kimiko Hahn’sThe Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems.

Join K. Iver and panelists Dorothy Chan, Eli Erlick, and Danez Smith as they explore the idea of found ancestry and its impact on their work.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, The Adroit, TriQuarterly, and elsewhere. They are the 2021-2022 Ronald Wallace Poetry Fellow for the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and the recipient of the 2022 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant. They have a Ph.D. in Poetry at Florida State University. They live in Madison, Wisconsin.

Dorothy Chan (she/they) is the author…

Join Ada Limón at the Seattle Central Public Library for a discussion of You Are Here, this year’s Seattle Reads pick.

Join Ada Limón at the Seattle Public Library to discuss You Are Here, this year’s Seattle Reads pick. Click here to learn more information about the event.

Please join Karen Babine for the celebration of her latest work, The Allure of Elsewhere.

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.

Join Jennifer Kabat alongside Sara B. Franklin, Kristin Russo, and Daniel Tam-Claiborne for Rough Draft’s monthly reading series, Night School. More information on the event here.

Join Ada Limón at Nestucca K8 for a reading and discussion of her acclaimed works, in partnership with the Sitka Center for Arts & Ecology. A book signing and refreshments will follow.

Join Milkweed Books and poet Michael Torres as welcome Steven Espada Dawson to launch his debut poetry collection, Late to the Search Party. Steven will read from his book and join in conversation around poetry, craft, belonging, and identity in the immigrant communities with Michael. There will be audience questions, book sales, and a signing to follow.

ABOUT THE BOOK

A raw, crystalline debut poetry collection exploring themes of family, addiction, belonging, and loss—a searching elegy of the fissures that have come to define contemporary American life.

The unsettled border between absence and presence haunts this stunning collection, in…

Join Karen Babine and Marya Hornbacher at Open Book for a reading and discussion of Karen’s forthcoming book, The Allure of Elsewhere.

Join Lauren Russell and Cynthia Marie Hoffman at the Woodland Pattern Book Center for a poetry reading and discussion.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference, where she will be the first keynote speaker.

Join Karen Babine for a reading, Q&A, and signing of her forthcoming book, The Allure of Elsewhere, in partnership with Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation. More details on the event here.

Join Milkweed Books and special guests, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Ryan Vine, and Michael Bazzett, as we launch and celebrate Matthew Nienow’s newest collection of poetry, If Nothing, out with Alice James Books in January.

ABOUT THE BOOK

If Nothing confronts addiction, the learned behaviors and expectations of masculinity, fatherhood, and the feelings of guilt and shame, attempting to understand them better and in doing so, find redemption and forgiveness. The poems often call us to listen to ourselves closer and ask, how do we forgive ourselves? This is a book that wants readers to feel their feelings without shame…

Join Karen Babine at Zenith Bookstore Thursday, May 29, for a reading and discussion of her forthcoming book, The Allure of Elsewhere. Link forthcoming.

Join Rosalie Moffett and Jennifer Chang for a reading and discussion at White Whale Books. More information and link forthcoming.

Join Jennifer Kabat in conversation with Danny Goodman at The Common Good for a reading and discussion of her latest work Nightshining.

Milkweed Books presents Patrycja Humienik to Minneapolis to launch her poetry collection We Contain Landscapes with special guest poets Tarik Dobbs, Sarah Ghazal Ali, & torrin a. greathouse. All the poets will read, followed by a conversation about Patrycja’s newest work, and a book signing after.

ABOUT THE BOOK

To whom do we belong, and at what cost? Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes, is haunted by questions of desire, borders, and the illusion of national belonging. Bringing music and rich sensory detail to the page, these poems attend to the inextricable link between our bodies…

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at CUNY Graduate Center for the 2025 National GrowTogether Conference keynote.

Join Helen Whybrow at Knoll Farm for the launch event of her newest work, The Salt Stones. The reading and signing will be accompanied by composer and multi-instrumentalist Ben Cosgrove in concert.

Join Wayne Miller for an appearance at the Belfast Book Festival. More info forthcoming.

Join Helen Whybrow at Bear Pond Books for a reading and discussion of her newest work The Salt Stones.

Join Jennifer Kabat for a reading and discussion at Riffraff Books. More information forthcoming.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Museum of Science for a Keynote Address & Fireside Chat on Indigenous Knowledge and the Value of Nature.

Join Helen Whybrow at Norwich Bookstore for a reading and discussion of her latest work The Salt Stones.

Join Karen Babine for a reading and discussion at Four Pines Bookstore. More information and link forthcoming.

Join Helen Whybrow at Newtonville Books for a reading and discussion of her latest book The Salt Stones. More info forthcoming.

Join Helen Whybrow at The Book Shop of Beverly Farms for a signing and meet and greet for her newest book, The Salt Stones.

Join Karen Babine at the Scamp Homecoming Rally for a panel where she will discuss her latest book The Allure of Elsewhere. The panel will be followed by a book signing.

Join Helen Whybrow at Odyssey Bookshop for a reading and discussion of her latest book The Salt Stones. More info forthcoming.

Join Nicholas Triolo at Missoula Public Library in partnership with Fact and Fiction Books for a reading and discussion of his latest book The Way Around. More info forthcoming.

Join Nicholas Triolo at Elliott Bay Book Company for a reading and discussion of his book The Way Around.

Join Nicholas Triolo at Powell’s City of Books for the launch of his book The Way Around.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Paepcke Auditorium for ACES Presents: The William A. Nitze Community Lecture.

Join Karen Babine for a reading and discussion of her latest work, The Allure of Elsewhere. More info forthcoming.

Join Karen Babine at Honest Dog Books for a reading and conversation of her forthcoming book, The Allure of Elsewhere.

Join Karen Babine at the Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, KY for a reading and discussion of her forthcoming work, The Allure of Elsewhere. Link forthcoming.

Join Kathy Fagan virtually for the 2025 The Frost Place Poetry Seminar, as a part of this year’s poetry seminar faculty. More information on the program and seminar can be found here.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at John M. Hall Auditorium for the Bay View Assocation keynote.

Join Jennifer Kabat and Vanessa Chakour for “Nature Writing Now,” an event organized in collaboration with The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home, Mass Audubon, and Orion Magazine.

Join Karen Babine at The Book & Cover for a reading and discussion of her latest book The Allure of Elsewhere. More info forthcoming.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at SUNY Oswego as a part of Oswego Reading Initiative.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer virtually for the opening of the YWCA Madison Racial Justice Summit.

Join Ada Limón at Readers’ Books for a reading and discussion of her forthcoming work, Startlement. More info forthcoming.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the virtual keynote for the Annual Environment & Spirituality Summit, hosted by Faith in Place.

Join Ada Limón in partnership with Books Are Magic at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church for a reading and discussion of her newest collection Startlement. More info forthcoming.

Join Helen Whybrow and Shilpi Suneja at the Concord Art Center for a reading and discussion. More details forthcoming.