Minneapolis, MN —

CANCELED: In person: Kaleidoscope 2024 publishing preview

Kaleidoscope members and their guests are invited to this year’s publishing preview with Milkweed Publisher and CEO, Daniel Slager. Over coffee and pastries, Daniel will share acquisition and development stories about the books he is most excited to publish in 2024 and take time to answer your questions.

If you don’t reside in the Twin Cities or are already booked the morning of the 22nd, please join us for the all-member virtual publishing preview on Wednesday, February 28, at 12 pm CT! Register here for the virtual event.

Bainbridge, GA —
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In person: Caroline Harper New appearing at Firehouse Arts Center

Join at Firehouse Arts Center on Friday, January 26th in the Art Gallery and Shop to celebrate Caroline and her debut collection of poems, selected by Maggie Smith for the 2023 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry. There will be drinks, a reading from A History of Half Birds, followed by a book signing.

Please RSVP by January 23rd

Sheree Renée Thomas

Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (2020) is her first all prose collection.

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Virtual: Milkweed annual member event 2024

Sign on for our second annual Milkweed member event: a 2024 publishing preview with Publisher and CEO, Daniel Slager. Join for behind-the-scenes stories of books on our list that we are excited to publish this year, followed by time for Q&A.

Not a member? Sign up here to access this membership benefit!

Cincinnati, OH —

In person: Yalie Saweda Kamara appearing at Contemporary Arts Center featuring Ross Gay

Join for the launch of Besaydoo, the award-winning highly acclaimed debut full-length poetry collection from Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara. Following this reading, Yalie will be joined in conversation with poet, author and professor Ross Gay. Questions will also be fielded from the audience.

6:00 pm: Reception
7:00 pm Program
8:15: Book sales & signing


 

 

Grist

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.

Ellen Wayland-Smith

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.

Lauren Russell

Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close; Descent, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award; and What’s Hanging on the Hush.