Events

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

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…

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the DeCoursey Lecture Series at Trinity University.

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…

Join us for the launch of poet Rick Barot’s collection of poems, Moving the Bones, on Saturday, November 9, at 144 Montague St and via Zoom! Doors will open for a wine reception for in-person guests at 6 PM and readings will begin at 7 PM. Victoria Chang and Brian Teare will open for Barot. Book signing to follow.

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…

Join Lauren Russell for a reading from her latest collection, A Window that can Neither Open Nor Close. She will be joined by Thomas Devaney and Joanna Fuhrman.

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…

A free literary arts reading, this year’s annual Shadow Work Writers will feature an all star lineup of Seattle-region greats including: Rick Barot, Raúl Sánchez, Roberto Ascalon, Kiana Davis, Eli Hastings (co-host), Shaun Anthony McMichael (co-host).

21+, Drinks and Food available for purchase. After the reading, we will host an author meet & greet, book signing, etc.

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.

Join Milkweed Books for Small Business Saturday & Sunday! As a nonprofit literary press with an indie bookstore, we rely on readers’ support and we’re excited to celebrate you with special in-store promotions this weekend only. We will have sips and snacks, staff recommendations, and special promotions (like our galley grab bag and broadside basket!) throughout the day. Not only do we carry Milkweed Editions titles, but we offer a unique selection of books published by other independent, small, and values-aligned presses in-store. We look forward to seeing you here!

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…

Milkweed Books presents National Book Award finalist BONNIE JO CAMPBELL. Bonnie will be reading from her latest novel, The Waters, out now in paperback. Program will include an interview with long-time fan Lisa Durose and a book signing.

ABOUT THE BOOK

On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three daughters. The…

Rick Barot appearing on Verse-Virtual, with Margo Bershevsky. Verse-Virtual is an online community and journal of poetry.

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…

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

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.