Events

Milkweed Presents Ellen Wayland-Smith, author of The Science of Last Things, in Minneapolis to read from her collection and join in conversation with author Colin Hamilton, followed by a social hour with refreshments.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Colin Hamilton has helped create a library, a center for…

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

Join Brooklyn Poets in partnership with Books are Magic to celebrate the launch of Latif Askia Ba’s The Choreic Period. Latif Askia Ba and Jay Deshpande will both read their work, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A.

Join us at Milkweed Books to hear Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger read, discuss science writing and finding inspiration from museum collections. Students from the workshop will be invited–but not required–to share their writing at the open mic after the reading and conversation.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

MARLENE ZUK is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the evolution of animal sexual behavior and animal communication. The author of Paleofantasy and Sex on Six Legs, among other works, her latest book is Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man’s Test, which was…

Join Milkweed Books as we present poet KIMIKO HAHN to celebrate her newest collection, The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. She will be joined by torrin a. greathouse and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood, Hahn both reinvents classic Japanese forms and experiments…

Join GRIST in partnership with Milkweed Editions for “Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions,” a virtual session exploring the themes of the upcoming Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis. Panelist information forthcoming.

Join Print: A Bookstore for a reading and book launch of Sarah V. Schweig’s The Ocean in the Next Room with author Claire Millikin.

Join Elliot Bay Books for a reading with Rosalie Moffett, alongside local poet and friend of the store Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.

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.