Join publisher Milkweed Editions, acclaimed authors, and your fellow readers across the country and around the world for an evening celebrating forty years of inspiring writers and the power of books in our lives. More details here!
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For the third episode of What Matters Most, author Margaret Renkl joins us from her backyard and gives us a personal tour of her “pollinator garden,” where she has intentionally planted seeds that serve as refuge and fuel for the bees and butterflies who traverse her home in middle-Tennessee.
“It’s really a great comfort—if we had to be locked in our houses anyway— that it happened in the springtime when there is so much new life and that is…
Milkweed Editions is pleased to announce that torrin a. greathouse has won the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. For her poetry collection Wound from the Mouth of a Wound, selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, greathouse will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions this December.
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of boy/girl/ghost (TAR Chapbook Series, 2018) and assistant editor of The Shallow Ends. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her work is published or forthcoming in POETRY, Ploughshares, …
torrin a. greathouse is a transgender cripple-punk and MFA candidate at the University of Minnesota. She is a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. In 2020, they received fellowships from Zoeglossia and the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
In anticipation of his newest poetry collection Horses, we sat down with author Jake Skeets—the third poet laureate of the Navajo Nation and previous National Poetry Series winner—to discuss the ways in which his two collections converse with one another, his path forward as Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, and what he would say to every rez kid that speaks in stanzas, and dreams in poetry.
In Horses, queerness becomes relational and mirrors the poetics I’m working toward where the land becomes witness, and the body becomes a carrier of meaning.
Milkweed Staff: I’m interested in the evolution between your…
Join Milkweed Books and Minnesota Center for Book Arts as we celebrate the work of Joel Hernandez. Featuring local poet and book artists MC Hyland, who will read and engage with Joel in conversation about hybrid and concrete poetry and the influences behind his newest work, war | machine. Refreshments will be provided by Chowgirls.
ABOUT THE WORK
What do we make of the past—our archives, artifacts, and the forgotten histories of individuals? war | machine began as a collection of anonymous photographs from the University of Minnesota in the 1930s and ’40s, and from WWII albums recovered from a…
Join Milkweed Books as we celebrate Diana Xin’s newest collection of short stories, Book of Exemplary Women, out December 1 with Yes Yes Books. Diana will read from her new book and engage in conversation with the audience.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Book of Exemplary Women, Diana Xin’s debut short story collection, a ghost is passed across three generations of women as they navigate unspoken regrets and unfulfilled desires. Teen girls grapple with grief as they face the end of childhood and other losses. Young lovers confront the future while old lovers excavate the past. Mothers and daughters…
Join booksellers at Milkweed Books for our February iteration of Milkweed Book Club. We’ll be reading THE LAST QUARTER OF THE MOON.
Please join Milkweed Books as we kickoff our Book Club with The Last Quarter of the Moon by Chi Zijian and translated by Bruce Humes.
Booksellers will lead an open discussion of the book with topics and questions and encourage anyone to attend. Pick up the book in-store or online at milkweed.org and use code BOOKCLUB to receive 20% off ahead of the club meeting.
Feel free to call the bookstore at (612) 215-2540 with any questions.
