Events

Join Ken Kalfus at Barnes & Noble — Philadelphia for a reading and discussion of his latest book, A Hole in the Story. More information can be found here.

Join JJJJJerome Ellis for a virtual reading to celebrate the winning of this year’s Balcones Poetry Prize. More information can be found here.

Join JJJJJerome Ellis for a virtual classroom visit as the winner of Austin Community College’s Balcones Poetry Prize. Click here to join the Zoom.

Join Wayne Miller for the launch of his forthcoming poetry collection, The End of Childhood. Wayne will be joined by Juan Morales and Kevin Prufer for a reading, conversation, and Q&A at The Shop at MATTER. More information on the event here.

Join Jennifer Kabat alongside Oliver Radclyffe, Sophie Strand, and Guy Trebay, moderated by Martha Frankel, for Woodstock Bookfest’s signature panel, Memoir-A-Go-Go. For more information on the panel and Woodstock Bookfest, click here.

Join Rick Barot and Jerico Lenk for a reading at Pacific Lutheran University, as part of The Visiting Writer Series, sponsored by the English Department and the College of Liberal Studies. More information on the event can be found here.

Join Chris Santiago and Wendy Ortiz at CalArts Butler Building #4 for a reading, conversation, and reception followed by a reading from current MFA Creative Writing Students. This symposium event will take a deep dive into non-fiction and the documentary poetics practice of ‘erasure.’ More information on the event can be found here.

Please join Milkweed Books as we welcome journalist and writer Sarah Jones to launch her new book, Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass. She will be joined in reading and conversation with podcaster and local writer, Chris Stedman.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Sarah Jones is a senior writer for New York magazine, where she covers politics and religion. She was previously a staff writer for The New Republic and her work has been published by The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Dissent magazine. Jones won the 2019 Mirror Award for commentary and has been a fellow at…

Join Milkweed Books as we welcome Minnesota native Jon Hickey back to the Twin Cities to help launch his new novel, Big Chief, which is named a Most Anticipated Book of 2025 by The Washington Post, Debutiful, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and LitHub. He will be joined in conversation with Teresa Peterson, author of Perennial Ceremony: Lessons and Gifts from a Dakota Garden, from the University of Minnesota Press.

You are also invited to join Jon and our friends at The Loft at Open Book on Saturday, April 12 at 11AM-1PM in his in-person craft seminar…

Join us for an evening inspired by the landscape and literature of Western Ireland as shared through writer and cartographer Tim Robinson’s epic Connemara Trilogy: Listening to the Wind, The Last Pool of Darkness, and A Little Gaelic Kingdom, featuring Luke Morgan and Dr. David Gardiner.

Join Rosalie Moffett at Saint Louis Poetry Center’s signature program, Sunday Workshop. Submissions of poetry will be commented on by Rosalie in a friendly and constructive group setting. Submit poetry for the workshop by midnight, 4/6.

Join Rosalie Moffett as part of the Observable Reading Series at the High Low Literary Arts Center. More details on the event forthcoming.

Join Sally Keith at the Blacksmith House as a part of the Cambridge Center for Adult Education’s ongoing Poetry Series. More information on the program here.

Join Chris Santiago and Wayne Miller at Next Chapter Booksellers for a reading and discussion of their latest works, Small Wars Manual and The End of Childhood.

Join Milkweed Editions as we welcome Chris Santiago back to Minneapolis! He will be joined by poets and artists Kathryn Nuerenberger, MC Hyland, & Rebecca Lehmann. The panelists will read from their recent works and discuss how they overlap.

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Chris Santiago’s debut collection Tula was selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Copper Nickel, Conduit, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, and American Public Media’s The Slowdown…

Join Ken Kalfus at Politics and Prose for a reading and discussion of his latest book, A Hole in the Story. More information on the event here.

Join Ada Limón at the Library of Congress to conclude her historic two-term, three-year appointment as U.S. Poet Laureate. A lecture on the art of poetry will be followed by a book signing. More information can be found here.

Join Chris Santiago at Poetic Research Bureau for the launch of his newest collection, Small Wars Manual. More info forthcoming.

Join Chris La Tray at Missoula Public Library, in partnership with Fact & Fiction Books and University of Montana, as part of the William Kittredge Distinguished Visiting Writer program. The celebration will begin with a reading at Missoula Public Library, followed by a reception at Fact & Fiction Books. More information can be found here.

Join Rick Barot at Bennington College for a reading and discussion of his poetry.

Join Milkweed Books as we welcome Cameron Walker to Minneapolis! Cameron’s work revolves around the human connection the world around them. Her newest short story collection, How to Capture Carbon, out with What Books Press, navigates climate change and loss with lyrical dreaminess. She has invited scientists and writers Kathryn Nuernberger, Kim Todd, Emily Sohn, and Marlene Zuk to speak with her around their work.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

In a dozen radiant stories, award-winning author Cameron Walker brings readers to the water’s edge, where the known world collides with magic and with the mysterious depths of the human heart…

Join Ken Kalfus at Pen and Pencil for a reading and discussion of his newest book, A Hole in the Story. Books for sale will be provided by Headhouse Books. More info and link forthcoming.

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

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…

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

Join Karen Babine for a reading and discussion at Four Pines Bookstore. More information and link 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 Helen Whybrow and Shilpi Suneja at the Concord Art Center for a reading and discussion. More details forthcoming.