Cambridge, MA —

Jake Skeets at Grolier Poetry Bookshop

Grolier Poetry Bookshop is pleased to welcome Jake Skeets for an evening of poetry readings. Jake Skeets will read from his award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, alongside authors Joan Navyiuk Kane and Santee Fraizer.

Portland, OR —

Rumpus Pop-up: Jake Skeets, Kristen Arnett, & Malcolm Tariq

The Rumpus is pleased to host Jake Skeets, author of the award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, for a pop-up poetry reading at the Portland Book Festival. Jake Skeets will join forces with authors Kristen Arnett (Mostly Dead Things) and Malcolm Tariq (Heed the Hollow) for this poetry reading.

Authors / Interviews / Poetry & Migration

Deep Cuts—Rick Barot's The Galleons

Julian Randall — 10/25/2019

Happy October Milkweed fans and friends! I’d like to introduce the second blog series that I will be curating this year, which we are calling Deep Cuts! In this series I have the privilege of diving in with the author of a compelling Milkweed title and discussing the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their book.

This month, I interviewed the inimitable Rick Barot around his collection of poems The Galleons, forthcoming February 2020. At once intimate and historical, The Galleons articulates both loss and life with always impeccable precision. I’ve been a tremendous…

Minneapolis, MN —
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Jennifer Croft at Milkweed Books

Milkweed Books is excited to host author, 2018 Man Booker Prize Winner, and National Book Award Finalist Jennifer Croft for a reading from her new memoir, Homesick (Unnamed Press).

Houston, TX —

Fady Joudah at Brazos Bookstore

Brazos Bookstore is pleased to host winner of the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets, Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance), for a discussion and signing of FIRSTS: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets, alongside William Virgil Davis.

Kathryn Cowles

Kathryn Cowles is the author of Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World and Eleanor, Eleanor, Not Your Real Name, winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize. She earned her doctorate from the University of Utah and is an associate professor of English at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in the Finger Lakes region of New York.

Logan, UT —

Robin Wall Kimmerer at Utah State University

Utah State University is pleased to host author and scientist Robin Wall Kimmerer for her widely acclaimed book, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.

Taylorsville, UT —

Jake Skeets at Salt Lake Community College

Salt Lake Community College is pleased to host a reading with Jake Skeets for his award winning collection of poetry, Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers.