Minneapolis, MN
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Poets + Booksellers Breakfast at Milkweed Books
Booksellers! Join us for a special breakfast with Milkweed Editions poets Ada Limón, William Brewer, and Parneshia Jones.
New York, NY
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Sarah Ruhl at McNally Jackson Books with Elizabeth Metzger
Sarah Ruhl will be joined by Elizabeth Metzger for a celebration of Max Ritvo, including readings from Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship and The Final Voicemails.
Evanston, IL
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Parneshia Jones in Conversation with Alice Walker
Poet Parneshia Jones (Vessel) will appear alongside acclaimed author and activist Alice Walker (The Color Purple). This conversation will explore the transformative effect of Walker’s life and body of work and honor the profound effect both Walker and her work have had on foregrounding black female experiences, relationships, and narratives.
Chicago, IL
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Parneshia Jones at the Colvin House
Poet Parneshia Jones (Vessel) will appear in Words That Matter: A Literary Solon, a reading sponsored by Creative Co-Working and Literature for All of Us, alongside writer Aaron Coleman at the historic Colvin House.
Berkeley, CA
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Fady Joudah at University of California, Berkeley
The Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley will host Fady Joudah, author of Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance, as a part of their lunch poems series.
Houston, TX
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Fady Joudah Featured in the Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series
Rice University will host poet Fady Joudah (Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance) for their Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series, alongside Carmen Giménez Smith with an on-stage interview moderated by Jasminne Mendez and a book signing to follow.
New Orleans, LA
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Elizabeth Rush at Tulane University
Elizabeth Rush, author of Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore will visit Tulane University for the inaugural event in the ByWater Institute’s speaker series Future Cities // Future Coasts.
Chicago, IL
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Elizabeth Rush at The Chicago Public Library
In partnership with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Chicago Public Library is pleased to welcome author Elizabeth Rush for a conversation about her new book Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore. The conversation will be moderated by NRDC Senior Policy Analyst Rob Moore, whose work focuses on water-related impacts of our rapidly warming climate, including the rising risks of flooding and the effects of sea-level rise.
Minneapolis, MN
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Book Launch: Michael Bazzett's The Popol Vuh
Join Milkweed Editions in celebrating the launch of Michael Bazzett’s translation of the Mayan creation epic, The Popol Vuh. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for mingling and cocktails, and the program will begin at 7:00 p.m. After a reading from The Popol Vuh, Bazzett will be joined in conversation by poet and essayist Michael Kleber-Diggs. A book signing will follow.
Authors
Excerpt: Letters from Max: A Book of Friendship
Max Ritvo began as my student. I met Max when he was a senior at Yale. This is how he began his application to get into my playwriting workshop: Dear Professor Ruhl, Thanks for reading this application. My name is Max Ritvo—I’m a senior English major in the Creative Writing Concentration. All I want to do is write. His application said that he was a poet and a comedian, part of an experimental comedy troupe. A poet and he’s funny? Huh. I reread his application, which had been left to stew in the “no” pile because he’d never written a play before. And because funny poets are a rare and wonderful species of human being, I moved Max to the “yes” pile, despite his lack of experience writing plays. It is hard to imagine now that Max’s application could ever have remained in any other pile—a strange parallel universe in which I never met Max.