Blue Stoop hosts John James, author of award winning poetry collection, The Milk Hours, in an engaging conversation with Grady Chambers (North American Stadiums).
Join Zenith Bookstore as they host author Faith Sullivan to read, talk about, and sign copies of her newest novel, Ruby & Roland, alongside author William Kent Krueger (This Tender Land).
Valley Bookseller hosts Faith Sullivan and her newest novel, Ruby & Roland, alongside authors Joshilyn Jackson (Never Have I Ever), Katherine Reay (The Printed Letter Bookshop), and Kassandra Montag (After the Flood) as part of Literature Lovers’ Night Out.
Su Hwang reads from Bodega at Brookline Booksmith alongside Tamiko Beyer (We Come Elemental) and Rajiv Mohabir (The Cowherd’s Son).
Patrick Johnson earned his MFA in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis and completed his undergraduate at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently studying to become a physician assistant, and lives in Madison.
Julian Randall is a living queer Black poet from Chicago and the inaugural Milkweed Fellow. A fellow of Cave Canem, Callaloo, Canto Mundo and the Watering Hole, he is the recipient of a 2019 Pushcart Prize. He holds an MFA in Poetry from Ole Miss. He is the author of Refuse, winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He tweets mostly about poems @JulianThePoet.
Celebrate the World Through Literature
Meet featured speaker Margaret Renkl and other Milkweed authors at our annual celebration of writers, books, and readers! The Book Lovers Ball features a seated dinner, live auction, storytelling from authors, and more! Joining us from Nashville, Margaret writes a popular weeky column for the New York Times, all about “flora, fauna, politics, and culture in the American South.” Her debut book, Late Migrations, is about growing up in the South, love and loss, and the splendor of the natural world.
In collaboration with Hanif Abdurraqib’s “From the Language of Ash” series in Columbus, the Kenyon Review welcomes Analicia Sotelo (Virgin) to campus for an afternoon reading and book signing.
Harvard Book Store welcomes poets, critics, and scholars Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis for a discussion of their new co-edited anthology, 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. Kristen and Alexandra will be joined by Leila Wilson, Brian Teare, and Ben Friedlander for the program.
Join the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for a poetry reading with Jake Skeets on first Friday, October 4, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore.
