Events

The Missoula Writing Collaborative is celebrating three decades of work at their gala, The Art of Writing. They will feature readings from MWC student writers, past Montana Poets Laureate Sheryl Noethe, Mark Gibbons, Melissa Kwasny, and the current laureate Chris La Tray. They will be serving dinner catered by River Song Gourmet and hosting a silent auction.

Third Place Books is delighted to welcome Kevin Craft and Jessica Fisher to the Ravenna store for an evening of poetry! Craft and Fisher will be presenting their new collections of poems. This event is free and open to the public.

For important updates, registration is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A.

Join Melissa Kwasny for a discussion and reading of The Cloud Path.

Join us for Milkweed Books’ Poetry Listening Party, featuring a lyrical selection of audiobooks on our list. Get a pre-release sneak peek of The Popol Vuh audiobook, translated from the K’iche and read by local poet Michael Bazzett. Relax in our cozy reading nook and let the voices of Mikeas Sánchez, JJJJJerome Ellis, Yalie Saweda Kamara, and Ada Limón wash over you, with some sips and snacks in reaching distance. Drop in, bring your own earbuds and device, or gather round our listening station to sample our innovative audiobook selection!

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Join Wendy Call in conversation with fellow writer-translators Michael Lipkin, Noor Habib & Khadeeja Majoka, and Matt Reeck.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, to explore scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants on April 20th at Grewal Hall in downtown Lansing.

Join Melissa Kwasny for a discussion and reading of The Cloud Path.

Join The Blake School and Milkweed Editions for this family-oriented event for all ages to explore wonders of nature. Featuring a conversation with New York Times bestselling World of Wonders author Aimee Nezhukumatathil and award-winning Brains On science podcast host Molly Bloom, along with orchids, turtles, plants, ice cream sundaes and more. View the original artwork by Fumi Mini Nakamura that illustrates World of Wonders and get inspired to make your own. Drop in, engage, and experience wonder together.

Join Melissa Kwasny for a reading of The Cloud Path.

Join Fady Joudah for a reading and conversation in celebration of his newest collection, […]. Joudah will be joined in conversation by Pacinthe Mattar. This event is hosted by Another Story Bookshop.

Join the Department of English at 7:30 pm on April 24, 2024, as the Esther Freier Lecture Series presents Gay (above right), author of The Book of Delights and The Book of (More) Delights, and Nezhukumatathil (left), author of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks & Other Astonishments. The bestselling poets and essayists will read from their work and be in conversation with English Professor Douglas Kearney.

Live captioning and ASL provided. For further questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email sutt0063@umn.edu or call 612-626-1528.

Guggenheim fellow Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine (Graywolf Press, 2020) and award-winning debut poet Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat (Milkweed Editions, 2020) come together to read and discuss the work they published during the pandemic. This event is presented with support from the Battery Park City Authority.

Join us for Milkweed Books’ Poetry Listening Party, featuring a lyrical selection of audiobooks on our list. Get a pre-release sneak peek of The Popol Vuh audiobook, translated from the K’iche and read by local poet Michael Bazzett. Relax in our cozy reading nook and let the voices of Mikeas Sánchez, JJJJJerome Ellis, Yalie Saweda Kamara, and Ada Limón wash over you, with some sips and snacks in reaching distance. Drop in, bring your own earbuds and device, or gather round our listening station to sample our innovative audiobook selection!

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Join Jackson Holbert for a reading and signing of his book Winter Stranger at Books Inc. Alameda.

THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Milkweed Books with special one-day-only promotions, and delightful 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! Sign up to become a Milkweed member to receive an exclusive tote bag and member discount! Learn more about Milkweed membership levels and benefits here.

This event will run all day, from 10 am to 5 pm, at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the…

Join poets Jessica Fisher and Mary Ruefle for a reading and conversation in celebration of their new books.

Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.

Join Square Books in celebrating the release of author and friend Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s new book Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees and the paperback release of her celebrated work of nonfiction World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments.

Join Fady Joudah for a reading and conversation about his newest collection, […]. Joudah will be joined in conversation by Roger Reeves.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes award-winning author Dorothy Chan for a reading from their new poetry book Return of the Chinese Femme, an unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness. Dorothy will read from their book and sit in conversation alongside poet Douglas Kearney, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 6 p.m.

About the book

The speaker in Dorothy Chan’s fifth collection, Return of the Chinese Femme, walks…

Join at PLAYA for this 4-night writing retreat exploring the Poetry of Birding led by best-selling author Priyanka Kumar. Through guided birding excursions to observe migratory birds in the Summer Lake Wildlife Area, bring your observations back to meditative discussions in our workshop circle. Here, participants will integrate birds and poetry, beginning with Seamus Heaney’s “St. Kevin and the Blackbird,” and travel back through the ages to the lone hut of the master of Chinese nature poetry. Create nature poems of your own inspired by local field trips observing spring migration in Summer Lake, Oregon.

Join us for the May entry in our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by The Seed Keeper author Diane Wilson! Diane will lead readings and conversation about writing amidst climate change with Erin Sharkey, editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, and special guest poet Halee Kirkwood.

Enjoy a social hour and book-signing in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore—Milkweed Books—beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation in the Open Book Performance Hall beginning at 6 p.m.

Our Spring 2024 slate of Milkweed Presents includes:

February…

Join Debra Magpie Earling and Louise Erdrich for a conversation in celebration of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. This event is in partnership with Birchbark Books and the Minneapolis Central Library.

Author accommodation generously provided by Canopy by Hilton Minneapolis.

Join Debra Magpie Earling, author of the 2023 Montana Book Award-winning The Lost Journals of Sacajewea, for a conversation over lunch about the origins and development of her visionary novel. The event is open to all Kaleidoscope members and guests.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes poet Tess Taylor for a reading from her new book Leaning Toward Light, a collection of contemporary gardening poems with a diverse range of contemporary voices that offer poems celebrating that joyful connection to the natural world, in an era of climate crisis. Tess will read from Leaning Toward Light and be joined in conversation by local author Beth Dooley, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 7 p.m…

Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Kabat for the release of her book The Eighth Moon. Francesca Wade and Aaron Hicklin will join Kabat in conversation.

Join Melissa Kwasny for a reading of The Cloud Path.

Join Priyanka Kumar at the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, where writers from Alaska and beyond come together to create community and learn how to be better writers.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes poet Sonja Swift for a reading from her book Echo Loba, Loba Echo: Of Wisdom, Wolves, and Women, a unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Sonja will read from Echo Loba, Loba Echo and be joined in conversation by local author Winona LaDuke, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore, Milkweed Books, beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 6 p.m.

About the book

Echo Loba, Loba Echo is…

Join us for the our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by Worldly Things author Michael Kleber-Diggs! Michael will lead readings and a conversation on the topic of art and activism during times of global and civil conflict with special guest speakers Sun Yung Shin and Michael Torres.

Please join us in-person at Open Book for an unforgettable reading and discussion at 6 p.m., and come early for a book-signing and social hour at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore, at 5 p.m.

Milkweed Presents is a monthly event series featuring Milkweed authors as curators of…

Join Milkweed Books as we host a launch event for three neurodivergent writers and their new books with Cow Tipping Press and Unrestricted Access.

Mary Ayetey, winner of the 2024 Cow Tipping Prize, will have her multi-genre collection published in May. This stirring book introduces a bold literary voice. At times blurring the past, and other times distilling exquisite details from her memories, Atetey builds cities to wander through. Her writing probes at her identity and personal history, taking the world apart and putting it back together with dynamic, purposeful language.

The event will also feature work by Mark Eati and Max…

Vivian Fung is collaborating with the Jasper String Quartet, tenor Nicholas Phan, and pianist Myra Huang, on the creation of a new song cycle, Songs for the Next Generation. The project is a half-evening length song cycle, approximately 30 minutes, for tenor, string quartet, and piano.

The work centers around poet Claire Wahmanholm’s prize-winning poem “O,” which took second place at the Academy of American Poets’ inaugural Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize. The poem is described by the judges as “an original and powerful evocation, using a single letter of the alphabet to name the wonders that are at risk…

Join authors Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shirk in conversation about The Eighth Moon.

Please join Milkweed Books in hosting poet Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. as he reads from his debut poetry collection Gay Poems for Red States.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In Gay Poems for Red States, Carver counters the injustice of a persistent anti-LGBTQ+ movement by asserting that a life full of beauty and pride is possible for everyone. More than a collection of poetry, Carver’s earnest and heartfelt verses are for those wishing to discover and understand the vastness of Appalachia, and for the LGBTQ+ Appalachians who long for a future—for a home—in an often unwelcoming place…

Join us for the our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by In Winter’s Kitchen author Beth Dooley! Beth will lead readings and a conversation on the topic of food and love with special guest speakers Theresa McCormick and Marnie Wells.

Please join us in-person at Open Book for an unforgettable reading and discussion at 6 p.m., and come early for a book-signing and social hour at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore, at 5 p.m.

Milkweed Presents is a monthly event series featuring Milkweed authors as curators of conversation with local writers and community organizers on…

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes author Nathan Lipps for the launch of his debut book of poems, Built Around the Fire, which delves into notions of place, the enveloping wonder and plight of our environment, and the complexities of rural culture. Nathan will read from Built Around the Fire, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation beginning at 7 p.m.

About the book

Built Around the Fire delves into notions of place, the enveloping wonder and…

Join author Jennifer Kabat for discussion around her book The Eighth Moon.

Join author Jennifer Kabat for a discussion on her memoir The Eighth Moon.

Join Jennifer Kabat in discussion with Summer J. Hart about The Eighth Moon.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes poet John Balaban for a reading from his newest book Passing Through a Gate, an essential collection of his prize-winning poems in one place, threaded through with essays that link poetry to Balaban’s extensive travels, whether hitchhiking throughout the United States or wandering the countryside of Vietnam during wartime to record and translate folk poetry. John will read and be joined in conversation by local author Michael Bazzett, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.

Enjoy a social hour in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 p.m., followed by…

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Old Forge Library for a Keynote Address and Regional Read.

Join Jennifer Kabat in conversation with Chris Kraus about The Eighth Moon.

Join us at Milkweed Books to welcome Iowa poet Margaret Yapp and launch her new poetry collection, Green For Luck, out with EastOver Press on April 23.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Green for Luck wanders green city blocks, denying happen-stance and making lists. Margaret Yapp attends to mundanity as a string that holds us close to the earth, building quotidian divinities, landing jokes just to make sure we’re listening. In this book, words push the left and upper margins, forcing the body of the page to act as negative space, a place where the light gets in. Green for Luck …

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at the Terry Todd International Speakers Series of the Kalamazoo Nature Center on Native Knowledge and Western Science.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Lauren Russell for the launch of her new collection, A Window That Can Neither Close Nor Open, out August 27th. In A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, the stakes of writing are also the stakes of living. “Though I no longer wanted to die,” writes Lauren Russell, “our first years together were not easy … because I also did not want to live.” From this enigmatic in-between, Russell dives into multitudes: cats and questions; compulsion and devotion; narrative and diagnosis; language and loneliness; scrupulosity and stasis; suicidality and love. After a…

Join Jennifer Kabat in discussion on her memoir The Eighth Moon.

Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Jennifer Kabat for the launch of her debut memoir, The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion. After reading from The Eighth Moon, Jennifer will be joined in conversation by local author Kathryn Savage.

Enjoy a social hour and book-signing in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 6 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation at 7 p.m.

Join Jennifer Kabat in conversation with Paul Chaat about her new memoir The Eighth Moon.

Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for the Swope Endowed Lecture Series.

Experience the power of life-changing literature with Montana Poet Laureate and Métis storyteller Chris La Tray, author of the forthcoming memoir Becoming Little Shell. Enjoy dinner, drinks, a live auction, and more, while celebrating and supporting transformative books.

Funds raised from the Book Lovers Ball support Milkweed’s mission to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

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

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.