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March book club at Milkweed Books

Please join Milkweed Books for our March Book Club with Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling.

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.

Interviews

Dear Rez Kid: Author Q&A with Jake Skeets on Horses

Brianna Reed — 11/21/2025

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. — Jake Skeets

Cover Art of Jake Skeets' Poetry Collection Horses


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