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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.

ABOUT THE BOOK

One woman’s cross-country journey to explore the hold family history has on our lives, and the power of new stories to shape what lies ahead.

In her mid-thirties and happily single, Karen Babine hitches up her tiny Scamp camper and sets out with her two unenthusiastic cats, Galway and Maeve, on a journey from her home in Minnesota to Nova Scotia to explore the place where her French-Acadian ancestors settled in North America…

Join Milkweed Books and special guests, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Ryan Vine, and Michael Bazzett, as we launch and celebrate Matthew Nienow’s newest collection of poetry, If Nothing, out with Alice James Books in January.

ABOUT THE BOOK

If Nothing confronts addiction, the learned behaviors and expectations of masculinity, fatherhood, and the feelings of guilt and shame, attempting to understand them better and in doing so, find redemption and forgiveness. The poems often call us to listen to ourselves closer and ask, how do we forgive ourselves? This is a book that wants readers to feel their feelings without shame…

Milkweed Books presents Patrycja Humienik to Minneapolis to launch her poetry collection We Contain Landscapes with special guest poets Tarik Dobbs, Sarah Ghazal Ali, & torrin a. greathouse. All the poets will read, followed by a conversation about Patrycja’s newest work, and a book signing after.

ABOUT THE BOOK

To whom do we belong, and at what cost? Patrycja Humienik’s debut poetry collection, We Contain Landscapes, is haunted by questions of desire, borders, and the illusion of national belonging. Bringing music and rich sensory detail to the page, these poems attend to the inextricable link between our bodies…

Join Milkweed Editions, W.W. Norton and Trust for Public Land as we welcome Robert Macfarlane to Minneapolis and celebrate his newest book, Is a River Alive? Robert will be joined in conversation with Milkweed Editions author Nicholas Triolo whose book, The Way Around, comes out in July.

Join Karen Babine for a reading and discussion of her latest work, The Allure of Elsewhere. More info forthcoming.