News

An update from Milkweed Editions

Milkweed Staff — 03/16/2020

Dear friends,

It is with concern and conscience that we have decided to temporarily close Milkweed Books. We have also decided to suspend all events through April. Milkweed Editions’ offices will remain open, but employees have been encouraged to work remotely if possible.

These are challenging times, and it is impossible to know how the days to come will unfold. We do know, however, that we owe our very existence—as an independent publisher and bookstore, as a non-profit organization, and as members of a multifaceted literary landscape—to our community. We also feel strongly that our top priority must be to…

The Galleons: Poems book cover
Washington, DC —

Asian American Literature Today: Monique Truong + Rick Barot

Join novelist Monique Truong and poet Rick Barot as they read from their new books (The Sweetest Fruits and The Galleons) and discuss their writing with moderator Jason Oliver Chang, followed by audience Q&A and book signings.

San Antonio, TX —

AWP Offsite: Mob the Ocho

Join us for an invigorating, inspiring evening of food, drink, and great writing, featuring contributors of The Adroit Journal, Copper Nickel, The Missouri Review, and Pleiades.

Claire Laine

Claire Laine is the senior publicist at Milkweed Editions. Before joining Milkweed in 2020, she held positions at Harvard University Press and Mass Poetry. She has a B.A. in English from Macalester College and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and has previously worked as an editor, a bookseller, a marketing strategist, and a ballet dancer.

 

San Antonio, TX —

AWP Offsite: The World I Leave You

Join us for the launch of The World I Leave You: Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit at AWP at The Cherrity Bar!

San Antonio, TX —

AWP Offsite: Poetry on the River Walk

Join 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Crazyhorse, Poetry Northwest, and Quarterly West for an AWP offsite poetry reading.

San Antonio, TX —
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AWP Milkweed Author Booth Signings

Stop by booth #1550 on the AWP Bookfair show floor for Milkweed author signings, starting Thursday, March 5!

Gatekeeper: Poems book cover
Minneapolis, MN —

Book Launch: Patrick Johnson's GATEKEEPER, with Khaled Mattawa

Join us at Parallel Café as we celebrate Patrick Johnson, winner of the 2019 Ballard Spahr Poetry Prize, and his debut collection of poems, Gatekeeper. The evening will feature a reading from Gatekeeper, conversation between Patrick and Ballard Spahr Poetry Prize judge and poet, Khaled Mattawa, and a reception with food and drink!

Awards & Prizes

Kathryn Smith Wins the Fourth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff — 02/28/2020

Milkweed Editions and Copper Nickel are thrilled to announce that judge francine j. harris has chosen Kathryn Smith’s book Self-Portrait with Cephalopod as the winner of the 2019–20 Jake Adam York Prize.

Self-Portrait with Cephalopod will be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2021, and Smith will receive $2,000.

Kathryn Smith is the author of the full-length collection Book of Exodus (Scablands Books, 2017) and the chapbook Chosen Companions of the Goblin, winner of the 2018 Open Country Press Chapbook Contest. Her poems have appeared in Bellingham Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest,…