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.
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…
Join Milkweed Books in welcoming authors Jonathan Blum (The Usual Uncertainties, Rescue Press) and Peter Bognanni (The House of Tomorrow, Berkley).
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).
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 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.
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.
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.
Books Are Magic is pleased to welcome Su Hwang for a celebration of her debut collection of poetry, Bodega, with authors Omotara James and Asiya Wadud!
