Events

Join Jennifer Eli Bowen with Angela Pelster and Inara Verzemnieks at Prairie Lights Bookstore for a reading and discussion of her latest work, The Book of Kin.

Join Ada Limón at the Vermont Humanities Fall Festival for a special presentation in partnership with the University of Vermont.

Join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation with Minal Hajratwala at Kew and Willow Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Chris La Tray at White Oak Books for a reading and discussion of his latest work, Becoming Little Shell.

Join Milkweed Books as we present Adedayo Agarau’s book launch for his collection, The Years of Blood. Adedayo will read from the book and be joined in conversation with gracious local poets Sarah Ali Ghazal and Erin Sharkey.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Editors Prize for a BIPOC Writer

In this unflinching debut collection, Adedayo Agarau confronts the harrowing reality of ritual killings and child abductions that have terrorized Nigeria from the turbulent pre-democratic era to the present day. Set against the backdrop of rural Ibadan, The Years of Blood plunges readers…

Join Jennifer Kabat and Alaa Abu Asad at Callie’s for Writing towards Plants, a workshop facilitated by author Jennifer Kabat and artist and researcher Alaa Abu Asad, as part of the In the Weeds series taking place at Callie’s in Fall/Winter 2025. Learn more here.

Join Lewis Hyde with Lawrence Rosenwald at Wellesley Books for a reading and discussion of The Essays of Henry David Thoreau, edited by Lewis Hyde.

Join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation with Reiko Rizzuto at Astoria Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation with Leslie Tucker at Bol Coop for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Sangamithra Iyer with Sunu Chandy at Lost City Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Sangamithra Iyer with E.B. Bartels at the Boston Porter Square Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Sangamithra Iyer at the New York Public Library’s Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.

Join Keith S. Wilson and Rosalie Moffett at the 2025 Miami Book Fair for “ON POETRY, PRIZES, AND PUBLISHING,” a panel in conversation and moderated by Simone Zapata. Together they will read poems from their newest books and discuss the lifespan of a poetry collection from manuscript-in-progress to published book. They will also reveal what it’s really like to win (and judge) book prizes and balance writing, careers, and the rest of life.

Join Kristen Case and Lewis Hyde at Brookline Booksmith for a reading and celebration of their latest edited works, Henry David Thoreau’s Kalendar and The Essays of Henry David Thoreau.

Join Jennifer Kabat and Kate Briggs at Callie’s for Plants, Language, and Translation, a reading and conversation between author Jennifer Kabat and writer and translator Kate Briggs, as part of the In the Weeds series at Callie’s in Fall/Winter 2025.

Join Sangamithra Iyer with Shruti Swamy at Green Apple Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Governing Bodies.