Events

Please join Milkweed Editions as we welcome Chris La Tray back to Minneapolis! The author of Becoming Little Shell, One-Sentence Journal, and Descended from a Travel-Worn Satchel will speak to us about houselessness, deportation, and the landless Indians.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Chris La Tray is a Métis storyteller, a descendent of the Pembina Band of the mighty Red River of the North, and an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, he is also the author of One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large, which won the 2018 Montana Book…

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.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

There, There meets The Night Watchman in this gripping literary debut about power and corruption, family, and facing the ghosts of the past…

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 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 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.

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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.