Andrea Brady and John James (The Milk Hours, 2019) will be reading at UC Berkely as a part of the Holloway Poetry Series.

Kelly J. Beard, 2017 Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award winner, and Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 2015), writer, naturalist and activist, will read from their works at 8 p.m. Feb. 21 at Austin Peay State University.

The reading – part of the Zone 3 Reading Series – is free and open to the public in Room 120 of the Art + Design Building.

In collaboration with Waiwai Collective, Native Books/Nā Mea Hawaiʻi, The Merwin Conservancy, & Milkweed Editions presents a gathering with writers and thinkers from HEARTH: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place, a multicultural anthology, edited by Annick Smith and Susan OʻConnor, published by Milkweed Editions.

Letʻs gather with writers Dr. Pualani Kanahele, Gretel Ehrlich and Frank Stewart to speak of our shared hearth. Moderated by Luana Busby & Maile Meyer.

Join Mizna for an intimate evening of readings, light snacks, and music as they celebrate the publication of their 37th issue, which has a special Palestine theme, marking seventy years of the occupation of Palestine. Chile-based guest editor Ismail Khalidi will be joining for the occasion. There will also be readings by visiting authors Khaled Mattawa and Fargo Tbakhi, as well as local authors Bao Phi and Ed Bok Lee. They will also unveil the new design of the journal—part of Mizna’s new look as they commence their 20th year! Books available for sale by Milkweed Books.

Poet Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Dissapearance, 2018) will be reading as part of the Sacred Arts Festival. Copies of Joudah’s books will be available for purchase and signing.  

Ada Limón (The Carrying, 2018) will read at Virginia Commonwealth University as a part of its Visiting Writers Series. She will be joined by Sarah Viren, author of MINE: Essays.

Karen Babine (All the Wild Hungers, 2019) will read at Beloit College.

Join this daylong workshop taught by Janisse Ray (Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, 2015). This workshop is sponsored by the Golden Isles Art Association, a program of Big Read 2019.

Ada Limón (The Carrying, 2018) will be reading at the University of Michigan as a part of the Zell Visiting Writers Series.

Join this reading and reception at University of Georgia to celebrate the launch of Another Kind of Madness by Ed Pavlić.