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Kelly J. Beard, 2017 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award winner, and Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 2015), writer, naturalist and activist, will read from their works at 8 p.m. Feb. 21 at Austin Peay State University.
The reading – part of the Zone 3 Reading Series – is free and open to the public in Room 120 of the Art + Design Building.
Free and open to the public.
Milkweed Books returns to our Winter Market table inside the Mill City Museum!
FREE and all are welcome.
The Saint Paul Public Library's Fireside Reading Series will host Karen Babine, author of All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer. This season, the series is asking Fireside authors to talk about what “home” means to them. The goal is to complement the citywide conversation happening this winter as part of Read Brave Saint Paul, an intergenerational reading program whose 2019 theme is housing.
Free and open to the public
In collaboration with Waiwai Collective, Native Books/Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, The Merwin Conservancy, & Milkweed Editions presents a gathering with writers and thinkers from HEARTH: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place, a multicultural anthology, edited by Annick Smith and Susan OʻConnor, published by Milkweed Editions.
Letʻs gather with writers Dr. Pualani Kanahele, Gretel Ehrlich and Frank Stewart to speak of our shared hearth. Moderated by Luana Busby & Maile Meyer.
Tieckets prsie is $5 and can be applies to the purchase of books sold at the event.
Join this reading and reception at University of Georgia to celebrate the launch of Another Kind of Madness by Ed Pavlić.
Free and open to the public.
The Loft Literary Center Presents a 2018-2019 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentor Moustafa Bayoumi and fellows Anessa Ibrahim and Jaya Stenquist. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Member: $5 | Regular: $10
Karen Babine (All the Wild Hungers, 2019) will be reading at Elon University.
Free and open to the public.
Rumaan Alam, author of That Kind of Mother, in conversation with Lisa Marie Brimmer on how a family can meet one’s needs. Presented by the Loft Literary Center, book sales by Milkweed Books.
Members: $10 | Regular: $15
Get to know the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards finalists as authors from each category participate in panel discussions about their work. Wilder by Claire Wahmanholm is a finalist in the poetry category.
Free and open to the public.
Milkweed Books returns to our Winter Market table inside the Mill City Museum!
FREE and all are welcome.
Rice University will host poet Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance) for their Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, alongside Carmen Giménez Smith with an on-stage interview moderated by Jasminne Mendez and a book signing to follow.
In recent years, many poets have turned to history as the inspiration for book-length projects. How does the poet’s craft encompass the historian’s? Panelists Dolores Hayden, Marilyn Nelson, Frank X Walker, and Martha Collins will explore strategies for choosing a resonant subject and interpreting another era using documents, maps, landscapes, and photographs.
Three award-winning poets will share their most recent work: In Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, Fady Joudah finds tenderness for the other, the dead, and the disappeared. In feeld, Jos Charles offers a lyrical unraveling of the circuity of gender and speech. In Calling a Wolf a Wolf, Kaveh Akbar confronts addiction and the strenuous path of recovery, beginning with the wilds of the mind. Introduced and moderated by Victoria Chang.
David Walker, David Young, Stuart Friebert, Martha Collins, and Kazim Ali will discuss FIELD magazine's history and values, including its annual symposium of essays on the work of a major poet, its commitment to translation, and its openness to a wide variety of voices, both established and emerging.
Metropolitan State University invites the community to celebrate their love of poetry, prose and the arts at Haute Dish’s 6th annual Spring Reading event! Student readers will be joined by Twin Cities poet Ed Bok Lee, with sales of Ed’s publications provided by Milkweed Books.
FREE and all are welcome
The English Department at Lewis & Clark will host poet Fady Joudah for a reading of his latest works, including Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance.
Free and open to the public
Central Washington University will host poet Jos Charles for its Lion Rock Visiting Writers Series.
Free and open to the public
Poet Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Dissapearance, 2018) will be reading as part of the Sacred Arts Festival. Copies of Joudah's books will be available for purchase and signing.
Free and open to the public.
Celebrate the state’s best books at the 2019 Minnesota Book Awards Ceremony. Readers, writers, and book-lovers from all over the state gather together for one incredible evening to honor stories of Minnesotans that connect us all. Wilder by Claire Wahmanholm is a finalist in the poetry category.
Karen Babine (All the Wild Hungers, 2019) will be reading at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, one of a series of literary events celebrating National Poetry month.
Free and open to the public.
The Loft Literary Center Presents their 2018-2019 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentor Natalie Diaz and fellows Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall and Jessie Lee-Bauder. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Member: $5 | Regular: $10
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Milkweed Editions! Join us for an evening honoring outstanding poets from the upper Midwest and the vitality of the poetry community at large—plus readings from the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry finalists!
SAVE THE DATE! More details to come.
The last of Milkweed Books’ Winter Market appearances inside the Mill City Museum before the spring market season officially begins!
FREE and all are welcome.
Help us celebrate our ★ third ★ Independent Bookstore Day at Milkweed Books!
FREE and all are welcome.
The Loft Literary Center Presents their 2018-2019 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentor Carmen Maria Machado and fellows Jeannie Goodspeed and Maitreyi Ray. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Member: $5 | Regular: $10
Poets S. Yarberry and S. Brook Corfman, author of Luxury, Blue Lace (Autumn House Press) read from their recent work in the bookstore, followed by reception and book signging.
FREE and all are welcome.
Elizabeth Rush will speak at the Chautauqua Institute during the third week of its 2019 Season, "A Planet in Balance: A Week Partnership with National Geographic Society."
In response to a rapidly changing planet, National Geographic is leveraging its legacy of exploration, innovation and vibrant storytelling to further solutions. From funding cutting-edge technologies to leading advancements in science communication, we’ll uncover how National Geographic is using 21st-century tools to shape the future of exploration and to address the greatest challenge our world has ever faced, faced, explore our own choices, and discover how we can reduce our human footprint.
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