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In Person: Sangamithra Iyer with Vijaya Nagarajan and Shruti Swamy at The Ruby

Join Sangamithra Iyer in conversation with Vijaya Nagarajan and Shruti Swamy at The Ruby San Francisco for “The River Connects Us,” discussing their work in the interwoven lives of plants, humans, and animals, an attention to the sacred, and explorations of ancestral knowledge

Authors

ON GIRL/S, GENDER, NEURO/QUEERNESS, SEX AND HOW WRITING IS AN ORGASM

Milkweed Staff — 03/31/2026

blush / river / fox is the startling English-language debut of Swedish polymath Anna Nygren. The collection is at once a domestic autistic ethnography, a more-than-human erotic pastoral, and an illustrated choreography of bewilderment. In this original piece accompanying the book, Anna contemplates the intersections of the world girl, neuro/queerness, and writing.


there is something with Girl. writing blush had to do with Girl. there is something with Girl that is like a ghost in me. the ghost is like a pretend and a play it is like a soft hurting. there is a ghost of Girl tickling pleasurely unpleasantly…

Interviews

Jake Skeets in Conversation with Bookseller Calvin Crosby

Milkweed Staff — 03/27/2026

Jake Skeets—Navajo Nation Poet Laureate, Whiting Award winner, and author of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award–winning Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers—returns with Horses, a powerful and long-awaited second collection. Opening with the haunting image of two hundred horses lost on Navajo land, the book moves through questions of climate change, belonging, and survival, while holding space for beauty, imagination, and joy.

Known for his groundbreaking queer, Indigenous poetics, Skeets continues to explore the deep connections between land, language, and identity, crafting poems that are at once intimate and expansive. Horses is a fierce and…