Mai Der Vang presents her debut collection of poems, Afterland, a haunting exploration of the multigenerational experiences of Hmong immigrants, refugees, and citizens. Milkweed Books, Graywolf Press, and the East Side Freedom Library are proud to host this Walt Whitman Award-winning poet here at the home of Minnesota’s Hmong Archives.
Kristen Radtke is a writer, publisher, and illustrater—and author of the new graphic memoir, Imagine Wanting Only This. Appearing in conversation with Angela Pelster-Wiebe.
Guest bookseller Peter Geye will join us from 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. Plus, get 20% off with this year’s Independent Bookstore Day Passport (available at all participating bookstores), or 10% off all titles containing shelf talkers.
Lauren Hunter is a poet, editor, and educator living in Durham, North Carolina. She received her MFA in poetry from The New School and is the managing editor for the experimental translation press Telephone. Lauren is the co-founder/curator of Electric Pumas, an occasional reading series/web presence interested in promoting multimedia art by women. Her chapbook, My Own Fires, was released by Brothel Books in 2011. Human Achievements (Birds, LLC) is her first book.
Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods, a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor. Hill makes his home in Bemidji, Minnesota, but is currently a visiting professor in the creative writing program at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and is a consulting editor at Broadsided Press, a monthly broadside publisher.
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s authored books include: Streaming, Blood Run, Off-Season City Pipe, Dog Road Woman, The Year of the Rat, and Rock Ghost, Willow, Deer. Hedge Coke has edited eight additional collections. She came of age cropping tobacco and working fields, waters, and working in factories.
We are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry! Presented in partnership by Milkweed Editions and the Lindquist & Vennum Foundation, the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry seeks to support outstanding poets residing in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and South Dakota and bring their work to a national stage. This year, we received more than 200 submissions.
As part of “Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration,” the first formalized programming of the Poetry Coalition, Milkweed Editions, Coffee House Press, Graywolf Press, and Birds, LLC have partnered to curate a selection of poems on the theme of migration. Installment #4: Ana Božičevic’s “Migration,” from Joy of Missing Out.
Born in Croatia in 1977, Ana is a poet, translator, teacher, and occasional singer. She is the author of Stars of the Night Commute (2009), the Lambda Award-winning Rise in the Fall (2013) and Joy of Missing Out, now out from Birds, LLC. She is the recipient of the 40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism award from the Feminist Press, and the PEN American Center/NYSCA grant for translating It Was Easy to Set the Snow on Fire by Zvonko Karanović, forthcoming from Phoneme Media. The anthology of translations The Day Lady Gaga Died: An Anthology of Newer New York Poets she co-edited with Željko Mitić appeared in Serbia in Fall 2011. She works and teaches poetry at BHQFU, New York’s freest art school.
Jon Lurie is the author of the memoir Canoeing with José and, with Clyde Bellecourt, The Thunder Before the Storm, a Minnesota Book Award finalist. He has worked as a journalist, wilderness guide, and as a teen adviser at a Native American journalism program. He serves as director of the Mother of Waters Project, a cultural outreach program that combines experiential learning with arts education.
