To celebrate the release of AGNI 92, poetry editors Ruben Quesada and Jessica Q. Stark host a series of brief readings and conversations with Cyrus Cassells, Benjamin Garcia, torrin a. greathouse, Shara McCallum, and Vietnamese poet Tue Sy’s English-language translators Martha Collins and Nguyen Ba Chung. Register here.
Denver Field Ornithologists host J. Drew Lanham, author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, who will deliver a talk on “Coloring the Conservation Conversation.” This event will be held on Zoom and simultaneously livestreamed at 7pm MT. Register here!
Join Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series for a conversation between Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Milkweed author of World of Wonders, and Jessica J. Lee, author of Two Trees Make a Forest. This event will take place virtually on Zoom at 7pm ET and is free to attend, but registration is required. Register here.
Join the Boston Public Library’s “Never Too Late” group for a reading and discussion with Allison Adair, author of The Clearing. This event will be held on Zoom at 2pm ET. Register to receive the Zoom link.
The Solidary Salon presents a virtual reading with twelve poets, including Allison Adair, author of The Clearing. This reading will be live streamed to Facebook at 7pm ET.
The Arlington Author Salon returns on Thursday, Oct. 1st at 7:30pm ET for a special spotlight on “women who flip the script,” featuring Allison Adair, author of The Clearing, Nina MacLaughlin, and Rani Neutill. Register here.
Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of Deep Cuts! In this series, we dive in with some of our authors and discuss the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their books. We’re doing things a smidge differently this month—in a moment, I’ll hand the mic over fully to Aimee Nezhukumatathil, who will take us on an audiovisual tour of some favorite featured friends from her new essay collection, World of Wonders.
But let me gush for just a sec: I admire World of Wonders so much. By moving through the world with an eye…
Join Brookline Booksmith’s Transnational Literature Series for an evening of poetry at 7pm ET, featuring Éireann Lorsung, author of The Century, Valzhyna Mort, and Khaled Mattawa. Register here.
We are so excited to introduce you to our two Fellows, Kachina Yeager and Tijqua Daiker, who both joined our team this year. Milkweed Publisher & CEO Daniel Slager, who helped establish our Fellowship program, reflects on these two new team members:
”In these challenging times, we are particularly pleased to welcome these Fellows to our team, and to work alongside them in publishing transformative books, from acquisition to release. I am confident they will enlarge our perspective as a publisher, and it is our great hope that they will contribute to the expansion of our field in…
Samantha Tijquanna (Tijqua) Daiker is a Fellow at Milkweed Editions. They are a writer, bookmaker, and slam poet. They preformed at the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in 2016 & 2017 before graduating with honors from Hamline University. Their favorite places to wander unsupervised include office supply stores and the bad romance novel section at Cub Foods.
