Fresno, CA —

Ada Limón at Fresno State

The Chicanx Writers and Artists Association is honored to welcome poet Ada Limón (The Carrying) to campus!

Augusta, GA —

Ada Limón at Writers Weekend

Augusta University welcomes Ada Limón (The Carrying) for a Craft Talk, “In Defense of Beauty,” at Writers Weekend.

The Galleons: Poems book cover
Seattle, WA —

Seattle Arts & Lectures: Rick Barot

Seattle Arts & Lectures will be streaming the reading of Rick Barot, award-winning Tacoma poet. His latest book of poems, The Galleons (2020), is in part about the centuries-long colonial structure that sustained Spanish control over Latin and South America, the Caribbean, and the Philippines.

Millbrook, NY —

Elizabeth Rush at Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Join Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies for a presentation by author and Pulitzer prize finalist Elizabeth Rush, who will discuss her new book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore.

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5 Reasons to Teach This Book—Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Julian Randall — 01/10/2020

Happy new year to you and happy fortieth anniversary year to all of us here at Milkweed! This year of blog content will seek to highlight what glows about the past, present, and future here at Milkweed, and there’s no more fitting space for us to begin than with a celebration of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants!

Since its release in 2014, Braiding Sweetgrass has epitomized our mission of publishing and supporting superb work that is deeply in conversation with our natural world. With over 300,000 copies sold, Braiding Sweetgrass was…