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Milkweed Editions: Virtual Book Lovers Ball

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!

Authors / What Matters Most / Watch & Listen

What Matters Most | Ep. 3 Margaret Renkl

Milkweed Staff — 05/07/2020
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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…

Authors / News / Submissions

torrin a. greathouse Wins the 2020 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry

Milkweed Staff — 04/20/2020

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

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.

Mississauga, ON, Canada —

In Person: Spreads from the Multiverse with Chris Martin

Join Chris Martin and The Blackwood Gallery for a lightbox tour and reading as part of The Blackwood’s Oughtism series, a multimodal seminar series on neurodivergent ways of living in the world. Each lightbox features spread pages from texts in the Multiverse series: Adam Wolfond’s The Wanting Way, Hannah Emerson’s The Kissing of Kissing, Lauren Russell’s A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, and Imane Boukaila’s Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes. For more information about the Oughtism series, click here.

Minneapolis, MN —

Friends Lecture: Michael Kleber-Diggs with Daniel Slager

The Friends Lecture Committee presents “The Art of Poetry, the Voices to Hear,” an evening with award-winning poet Michael Kleber-Diggs in conversation with Daniel Slager, Milkweed Editions publisher and CEO.

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a writer, artist, scholar, educator, cultural worker, and creature of the Colombian diaspora.

Minneapolis, MN —

Milkweed Books presents Carey Salerno

Milkweed Books presents Carey Salerno, publisher at Alice James Books and poet, to celebrate her newest collection, The Hungriest Stars. She will be joined by local poet Sarah Ghazal Ali for a reading and conversation, followed by book sales and signing.