Minneapolis, MN —

Mill City Winter Market | April

The last of Milkweed Books’ Winter Market appearances inside the Mill City Museum before the spring market season officially begins!

Minneapolis, MN —

Loft Mentor Series: Natalie Diaz

The Loft Literary Center Presents their 2018-2019 Loft Mentor Series Reading with mentor Natalie Diaz and fellows Mimi Iimuro Van Ausdall and Jessie Lee-Bauder. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.

Minneapolis, MN —

Metro State Spring Reading with Ed Bok Lee

Metropolitan State University invites the community to celebrate their love of poetry, prose and the arts at Haute Dish’s 6th annual Spring Reading event! Student readers will be joined by Twin Cities poet Ed Bok Lee, with sales of Ed’s publications provided by Milkweed Books.

Darrel J. McLeod

Darrel J. McLeod is the author of Peyakow and Mamaskatch, which received the Govenor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. He is Cree from treaty eight territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing in his retirement, McLeod was a chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He lives in Sooke, British Columbia.

St. Paul, MN —

“All We Need is Love (Poems)” at The Grand Hand Gallery featuring James Lenfestey

How about a little warm-up for Valentine’s Day? How about love poems to partners, children, bees, pigs, words, winter, and Mother Earth? You’ll get all that and more when poet, journalist and memoirist James Lenfestey (A Marriage Book, 2017) stops by the Grand Hand to read his love poems on February 7. Bring your beloved with you…unless your beloved is a pig. Or bees. Beloved children and human partners welcome!

New York, NY —

National Audubon Society Annual Gala Honoring J. Drew Lanham

The National Audubon Society will honor J. Drew Lanham with the Dan W. Lufkin Prize for Environmental Leadership for his tireless advocacy to protect birds and build a new generation of conservation leaders. He will be presented with one of Audubon’s top conservation awards at its annual gala in New York City on February 7, 2019.

Augusta, GA —

Augusta University's Writers Weekend: Keynote Speech by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Poet and zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Sea Summit, 2016) delivers the keynote at Augusta University’s Writers Weekend, their annual spring creative writing conference. Presenters at the conference include writer and director Whit Stillman, Cinelle Barnes, Eric Smith, Laura Leigh Morris, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, and Frank Iodice.

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