Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the author of Dēmos, Colonize Me and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, winners and finalists of over a dozen awards.
Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley belongs to the Onondaga Nation of Indigenous Americans in New York. He is the author of Dēmos, Colonize Me and Not Your Mama’s Melting Pot, winners and finalists of over a dozen awards.
Enjoy a lively virtual discussion with four multi-genre, Minnesota Book Award-winning authors: Karen Babine (author of All the Wild Hungers), Heid Erdrich, Peter Geye & Kao Kalia Yang. This event will be presented on Zoom at 6:30pm CT.
Point Reyes Books hosts Dan Beachy-Quick for a discussion of Stone-Garland. This event is sponsored by the Center for the Art of Translation, a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to finding dazzling new, overlooked, and underrepresented voices, brought into English by the best translators, and to celebrating the art of translation. Hosted on Crowdcast at 7pm PT.
Hay Festival Querétaro hosts Milkweed author Darrel J. McLeod (Mamaskatch), in conversation with Mirza Mendoza, Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, and Ingrid Bejerman. This event will be presented virtually. Register here.
Writing By Writers hosts Jake Skeets for a reading from Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers. This webinar will be hosted via Zoom at 5:00pm PDT. Please RSVP for password.
The editors of The Adroit Journal are thrilled to welcome you to a reading celebrating the release of our thirty-fourth issue. Readers include issue contributors Jos Charles, Jordan Jace, Yalie Kamara, David Naimon, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, and Diane Seuss. The reading will be hosted on Zoom (8pm ET) by Peter LaBerge, founder and editor-in-chief of The Adroit Journal.
Author Wayne Miller reflects on the artistic process of creating the cover of his collection, We the Jury.
The Poets Corner hosts Éireann Lorsun, Betsy Sholl, Emma Dawson-Webb and Lulu Rasor in reading and conversation. This event will be presented virtually at 4:00pm ET.
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Welcome, friends, to the latest installment of 5 Reasons to Teach This Book! In this interview series, we examine what we can learn from Milkweed’s titles by discussing our books with educators, authors, and booksellers. This month, we’re featuring Karen Babine’s 2020 Minnesota Book Award winning book, All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer.
In this interview, Karen and I discuss both the craft and critique of personal nonfiction. What on the page contributes to an author’s voice, that borderline indefinable element of craft? How do we accommodate our eagerness for answers in literature without…