Join Diane Wilson for a reading at the River Falls Public Library. This event will be held in the lower level community room, and will be simultaneously streamed to the library’s Facebook page and YouTube channel. Chapter2Books will be present at the event selling books. More details here!
Join Diane Wilson for a reading at Norwalk Public Library! More details here!
Join Su Hwang and Michael Kleber-Diggs in conversation with Amaud Jamaul Johnsonand Tracy K. Smith at Moon Palace Books on May 18th at 7pm CST. More details here!
Immediate Song is a combination concert and poetry reading inspired by University of Cincinnati emeritus professor Don Bogen’s latest book with the same title. Immediate Song is anchored in brief lyric poems, and the poet will alternate readings with musical interludes by mezzo-soprano Kate Tombaugh and pianist Jill Jantzen as they present settings of Bogen’s poetry by contemporary composers Steven Weimer and Ellen Harrison. Learn more here!
Marilyn Hacker is the author of fourteen books of poems, including Blazons and A Stranger’s Mirror (longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award), a collaborative book, Diaspo/ Renga, written with Deema K.
Karthika Naïr is the coauthor of A Different Distance. She is a poet, fabulist and librettist whose books include The Honey Hunter, illustrated by Joëlle Jolivet.
Join us for the virtual launch of Michael Kleber-Diggs’s Worldly Things—the 2020 winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize—co-presented by Milkweed Editions, the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop. Kleber-Diggs will be joined in conversation by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith. Register here!
This event launches the new Max Ritvo Poetry Prize Presents virtual event series. This series brings a vibrant group of poets and poetry advocates together for an evening of celebration, poetry, and conversation. Milkweed Editions is…
Join Robin Wall Kimmerer at Western Washington University! More info here!
Join Diane Wilson in conversation with Simon Van Booy, Jill McCorkle, and Kelly Justice at the RVA Book Lover’s Festival. More details here!
torrin a. greathouse in conversation with Jorge Mendez, Roscoe Burnems, and KaNikki Jakarta as they discuss the process of writing poetry versus performing spoken word poetry. More details here!
