Celebrate the publication of The Interrogation, Michael Bazzett’s third collection of poems. Bazzett will be joined by local poets Gretchen Marquette, Chris Santiago, and Anders Carlson-Wee. We’ll have an Interrogation Pale Ale on tap plus a *~surprise~* giveaway! As Danez Smith puts it: “You need this book.”
We are delighted to announce the acquisition of a second collection of poems by the late Max Ritvo, the celebrated author of Four Reincarnations, which the New York Times Book Review called “good-humored, appealingly sly, and surprisingly whimsical.”
Join us in the bookstore with Sean Gasper Bye, Heather Cleary, Elisabeth Jaquette, Allison Markin Powell, Jeremy Tiang, and Jeffrey Zuckerman of the Cedilla translation collective for drinks, merriment, and door prizes as they speed read from the international treasures in their portfolio. There ain’t no party like a Cedilla party, because a Cedilla party 永遠不會停止 nie przestanie 止まらない wird nicht aufhören. Reading and reception begins following the Friday keynote at the American Literary Translators Association conference.
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When Milkweed Editions invited my thoughts on cover design for Virgin, I sent them a Pinterest page with visual influences: Victorian pharmaceutical advertisements, turn of the century women’s magazine covers, art nouveau color palettes, autochromes, and vintage illustrations of flora and fauna (mostly cacti)—all motifs of highly polarized femininity that I was trying to capture and reconsider.
Analicia Sotelo is the author of Virgin, the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, selected by Ross Gay, to be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018. She is also the author of Nonstop Godhead, which was selected by Rigoberto González for a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship.
Join us in the bookstore as we celebrate ONE YEAR of Milkweed Books, named BEST BOOKSTORE 2017 by CityPages! Featuring a street sale, book swap, special deals, and sweet treats, with one-day-only extended Sunday hours. It’s been a great year, and we can’t wait to share the next one with you!
We are pleased to announce that Jos Charles has been named one of five winners of the 2017 National Poetry Series. feeld was selected by Fady Joudah and will be published in September 2018 by Milkweed Editions.
Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of two very special books today: Alex Lemon’s Feverland: A Memoir in Shards and William Brewer’s National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems I Know Your Kind. Both share a common impulse to meet pain and stigma with beauty and art.
September marks one year since Dave and Amy Freeman left the Boundary Waters and returned to civilization. Join Milkweed Editions and the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters to celebrate this special anniversary and the release of Dave and Amy Freeman’s new book A Year in the Wilderness.
