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Virtual: Deni Ellis Béchard in conversation with Daniel Slager

We are pleased to present a conversation between author Deni Ellis Béchard and his editor and Milkweed CEO and Publisher, Daniel Slager in celebration of Béchard’s latest novel, We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine.

Join us virtually via Zoom at 6:00 PM CST. Registration is free but required.

Pre-order your copy of We are Dreams in the Eternal Machine here: https://milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine

Deni Ellis Béchard is the author of eight previous books of fiction and nonfiction, including Vandal Love, winner of the 2007 Commonwealth Writers Prize, and Into the Sun, winner…

Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: A Poetry Reading with Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm at The Great Northern Sauna Village

Join The Great Northern Festival in partnership with Milkweed Editions for a special Open Steam sauna reading with poets Michael Bazzett and Claire Wahmanholm. The reading will take place in our event sauna, where you’re welcome to come and go at your leisure. Step inside and enjoy the reading in the soothing heat, and then cool off outside or check out one of our other saunas. Please note that sauna participants must be 13+ years of age at the time of their sauna experience. Attendees under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.

St. Paul, MN —

Virtual: The Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions

Join Milkweed Editions, Grist, and The Great Northern Festival for “Role of Sci-Fi + Imagination in Climate Solutions,” a virtual session exploring the themes of the recent Cli-Fi anthology, Metamorphosis: Climate Fiction for a Better Future. Featuring Grist editor Tory Stephens in conversation with Metamorphosis contributors Sanjana Sakar and Louis Evans.

News

Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library launch new partnership

Milkweed Staff — 12/19/2024

A locally grown collaboration with national impact: Indigenous Library Steward-sustaining Partnership

Photograph by Anna Min

Chris La Tray placing his book Becoming Little Shell into the new Indigenous Little Free Library at Red Lake Nation College in Minneapolis.

Milkweed Editions and Little Free Library are excited to share our new “steward-sustaining” partnership for the Indigenous Little Free Library Program.

What is the Indigenous Little Free Library Program? Little Free Library grants no-cost book-sharing boxes where needed most on tribal lands and in Indigenous communities in the United States and Canada. They work with Indigenous community leaders and members to place book exchanges in locations where book access is important to improving literacy. Learn more here.

Intended to help sustain the library selections for these granted libraries…

Minneapolis, MN —

In person: Kimiko Hahn at Milkweed Books with torrin a. greathouse & Michael Kleber-Diggs

Join Milkweed Books as we present poet KIMIKO HAHN to celebrate her newest collection, The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems. She will be joined by torrin a. greathouse and Michael Kleber-Diggs.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Opening with forty-three new formally inventive poems and leading the reader back in time through selections from her ten previous volumes, The Ghost Forest offers a contemplative and haunting narrative of a writer’s artistic journey through craft and form while illuminating her personal history. Exploring the mysteries of science, nature, and the experiences of contemporary womanhood…

Minneapolis, MN —

Milkweed Books and Bell Museum present Finding Inspiration in the Collections: A reading by Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger

Join us at Milkweed Books to hear Marlene Zuk and Kathryn Nuernberger read, discuss science writing and finding inspiration from museum collections. Students from the workshop will be invited–but not required–to share their writing at the open mic after the reading and conversation.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 

MARLENE ZUK is Regents Professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota. She studies the evolution of animal sexual behavior and animal communication. The author of Paleofantasy and Sex on Six Legs, among other works, her latest book is Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead

Minneapolis, MN —

In person: A reading and social hour with Ellen Wayland-Smith & Colin Hamilton

Milkweed Presents Ellen Wayland-Smith, author of The Science of Last Things, in Minneapolis to read from her collection and join in conversation with author Colin Hamilton, followed by a social hour with refreshments.

 

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Colin Hamilton has helped create a library, a center for dance, affordable…

Authors / Roundup

2024 Book Lovers Holiday Gift Guide

Milkweed Staff — 11/26/2024

Because reading is life-changing, and books make the best gifts! In addition to our perennial favorite gift book, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our hand-selected recommendations are here to help you work through your holiday list.

Join our membership program to support the publication of life-changing literature like this and receive a 20% discount on all Milkweed books! Learn more here.

For the romantic adventurer:
North American Odyssey by Amy & Dave Freeman

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Imagine taking a 12,000 mile journey from the Pacific Northwest, through Canada, and all the way down the…