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Small Business Saturday (& Sunday!) at Milkweed Books

Join Milkweed Books for Small Business Saturday & Sunday! As a nonprofit literary press with an indie bookstore, we rely on readers’ support and we’re excited to celebrate you with special in-store promotions this weekend only. We will have sips and snacks, staff recommendations, and special promotions (like our galley grab bag and broadside basket!) throughout the day. Not only do we carry Milkweed Editions titles, but we offer a unique selection of books published by other independent, small, and values-aligned presses in-store. We look forward to seeing you here!

Brianna Reed

From the Navajo Nation, Brianna Reed is the Diné author of multi-genre works that have appeared in Leonardo Fine Arts magazine, The Tribal College Journal, The Yellow Medicine Review, and Into the Unknown Together: A Climate Sci-Fi Anthology. By gaining her BFA in Nonfiction through the Institute of American Indian Arts, she has earned opportunities to present work across the nation, in Mexico, the Fine Arts Work Center of Cape Cod, and now through the Milkweed Editions fellowship. Now pursuing her MFA in Fiction through IAIA, she has also entered her third year penning her column, “The Moccasin Millennial” with…

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Alex Guerra

Alex Guerra is a Mexican-American designer and illustrator from the Chicagoland area. Prior to obtaining the Milkweed fellowship role, Alex worked as a Graphic Designer for Molex. He created and independently published a two-book series focused on medicinal plants and the Tarot—Tarolixir 2022 (Books 1 & 2). His creative works usually focus on plants, nature, and culture. He also received his BFA in Illustration and Design from the Cleveland Institute of Art.

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In person: Lauren Russell appearing at Bird in Hand Coffee & Books

With excitement, Bird in Hand announces this hometown event for poet and professor Lauren Russell’s new poetry collection, A Window That Can Neither Open Nor Close: Poems, Plots, Chance! Fellow poets Soham Patel and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will join to read alongside Russell in this celebratory evening.

Anessa Ibrahim

Anessa Ibrahim is the Administrative Coordinator at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed, she taught creative writing at a high school arts conservatory in California. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Minnesota and a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Cincinnati. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review and American Short Fiction.

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Literary Witness: Time Remaining by James P. Lenfestey

Join us a book launch celebration featuring poetry readings from Time Remaining: Body Odes, Praise Songs, Oddities, Amazements by the author James P. Lenfestey.

This event is free and open to the public and is part of Plymouth Congregational Church’s Literary Witness Series and co-presented by Milkweed Editions and The Loft Literary Center. Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Minneapolis, MN —

In person: J.P. White book launch with Glenn Miller

Join Milkweed Books as we launch local author J.P. WHITE’s new novel, The Last Tale of Norah Bow. He will read from the book, engage in a conversation with GLENN MILLER about craft and character, and open it up to audience questions and book signing.

 

ABOUT THE BOOK

In 1926, during Prohibition, Vital Bow is abducted at gunpoint during dinner at the family cottage in Rye Beach, Ohio. His intrepid fourteen-year-old daughter, Norah Bow, discovers her father’s involvement in a rum-running gang operating on Lake Erie and determines to sail north to rescue him. En route, Norah rescues Ruby Francoeur…

Authors

Photo of Melissa Kwasny, wearing a blue shirt, against a brownish orange background

Voicing grief: the language of elegy

Milkweed Staff — 09/19/2024

By Melissa Kwasny

One of the first things I learned as a hospice volunteer is to think of death not as a medical emergency but rather as a spiritual event. After attending many deaths, including that of both my parents, I have learned something else: dying is a spiritual process, not a moment. It is a process not only for the person experiencing it but also for their loved ones who are left with grief.

Grief is universal. All peoples, and most animals, experience it. It is, paradoxically, also individual. We each suffer grief uniquely. It is perhaps our…

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