Events

Join 24th US Poet Laureate Ada Limón and the internationally bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer, for an unforgettable evening at the historic Pantages Theatre. These two visionary writers and thinkers, in conversation for the first time, are both known for their impact in literature and their timely ability to offer critical insights into resiliency, reciprocity, and what it means to be human in the natural world. Ken Lucero, Trust for Public Land’s Tribal and Indigenous Lands Director, will introduce the conversation. This connective conversation will be an offering to those looking for ways to navigate…

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Join us Thursday, October 9, for the 2025 Book Lovers Ball, Milkweed Editions’ signature fundraising gala. We are thrilled to host guest speaker Robin Wall Kimmerer and 300 fellow book lovers at Nicollet Island Pavilion in Minneapolis to celebrate and raise funds for transformative literature. Tickets are selling quickly—to secure yours, reserve them today!

Join Helen Whybrow, author of the National Book Award longlisted The Salt Stones, for a gathering with local sheep farms Get Bentz & Shepherd’s Way.

Join us to launch Jennifer Eli Bowen’s debut The Book of Kin at Open Book.

Rosa Lane and Stephen Haven will read from their newest collections.

Milkweed Editions presents poet and novelist Grady Chambers in Minneapolis to launch his newest novel, Great Disasters, with Aamina Ahmad.

The League of Minnesota Poets is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its 3 rd annual Agates IndyBookStore Tour that showcases its highly anticipated Agates Volume 88, a vibrant poetry collection celebrating the creative spirit of Minnesota’s literary community.

This year’s publication will feature the work of more than 80 distinguished and emerging poets from across the state, each contributing unique voices to a tapestry of contemporary verse.

Over the coming months, the anthology’s poets will appear at more than 30 independent bookstores throughout Minnesota, sharing their work with audiences in every corner of the state. These events…

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.

 

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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 Milkweed Books in launching Kathryn Nuernberger’s newest title, Held: Essays in Belonging.