Shannon Blackmer

Shannon Blackmer is the sales & operations manager at Milkweed Editions. Shannon rose into a staff position in the fall of 2018 after a summer internship at the press. She holds a BA in English and journalism with honors from Stony Brook University, where she started an online magazine written by and for college women during her time there. Shannon enjoys environmental and feminist novels, as well as reading bedtime stories to her nieces and nephews.

I work at Milkweed because we need literature to boost empathy through human stories of the soul. I hope to continue supporting Milkweed’s passion for thoughtful…

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Minneapolis, MN —
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Book and Album Launch: The Mirrormaker by Brian Laidlaw

Milkweed Editions and Rain Taxi present the launch of Brian Laidlaw’s The Mirrormaker, his new poetry collection and its accompanying album. Poetry and music from Brian, poet/performer Douglas Kearney, and artist Ashley Hanson.

Los Angeles, CA —
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Feminist AF featuring Ada Limón

Amber Tamblyn and Roxane Gay are bringing back their Vulture Festival staple reading series, Feminist AF, for another afternoon showcasing the most daring voices in feminist writing today. Special guests will include America Ferrera, Ada Limón, and Carmen Maria Machado.

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: November

Bookseller Recommendations: November — 11/11/2018

This month’s recommendations from our bookstore staff feature foldout folktale monsters, reflections on freeing ourselves from legacies of harm, lovingly-told tales from the basketball court, and unusual, textured stories of women and mystery. Each of these books is uniquely suited to be revisited—all four are made up of stories, histories, and ideas that merit our returning to them over and over again, to lending them out to friends and family, to unpeeling a new layer with every re-read. We like to think that makes these titles a good fit for this season, when we find ourselves caught between bustle…

Authors / Watch & Listen

New Work by Robin Wall Kimmerer: “Corn Tastes Better on the Honor System”

Milkweed Staff — 11/08/2018

Just released in the latest issue of Emergence Magazine is a new essay by Robin Wall Kimmerer, complete with an interactive experience including audio, parallax illustration, the most cosmological photos of corn you will possibly ever see in your life, stop motion animation with folded paper corn, and an interactive timeline.

New York, NY —

Sarah Ruhl with Angela Chen and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon

Join the Poetry Society of America for a special program featuring writers Sarah Ruhl, Angela Chen, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, who will share and reflect on the poems, letters, and journals of poets who explored – with verve, intellect, and grace – the presence of death in their lives and their work.

John James

John James is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole as winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is pursuing a PhD in English at the University of California, Berkeley.

Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows, Late Migrations, and Graceland, at Last. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly.

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