Celebrate the World Through Literature

Meet featured speaker Margaret Renkl and other Milkweed authors at our annual celebration of writers, books, and readers! The Book Lovers Ball features a seated dinner, live auction, storytelling from authors, and more! Joining us from Nashville, Margaret writes a popular weeky column for the New York Times, all about “flora, fauna, politics, and culture in the American South.” Her debut book, Late Migrations, is about growing up in the South, love and loss, and the splendor of the natural world.

In collaboration with Hanif Abdurraqib’s “From the Language of Ash” series in Columbus, the Kenyon Review welcomes Analicia Sotelo (Virgin) to campus for an afternoon reading and book signing.

Harvard Book Store welcomes poets, critics, and scholars Kristen Case and Alexandra Manglis for a discussion of their new co-edited anthology, 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive. Kristen and Alexandra will be joined by Leila Wilson, Brian Teare, and Ben Friedlander for the program.

Join the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing for a poetry reading with Jake Skeets on first Friday, October 4, 2019 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore.

Harpeth Hall school welcomes Margaret Renkl for a reading from Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss.

Magers & Quinn Booksellers hosts a poetry reading with John McCarthy (Scared Violent Like Horses), Lisa Higgs, and Tracy Zeman.

THE EDGE READING SERIES at Bridge Street Books presents John James (The Milk Hours), Elizabeth Arnold, and Christopher Kondrich.

Elizabeth Rush (Rising) will speak at Sierra Club’s Annual Celebration on the role of activism and writing, addressing the pressing issues of climate disruption, and environmental justice.

Jos Charles (feeld) will read with Samantha Hunt for the University of Maryland’s Writers Here & Now series.