Bao Phi has been a performance poet since 1991 and has performed as a featured artist all over the United States. He is the author of Sông I Sing (Coffee House Press, 2011) and Thousand Star Hotel (Coffee House Press, 2017). His first children’s book, to be illustrated by Thi Bui, will be published by Capstone Press in the fall of 2017. He is currently Program Director at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We’re proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that breed independent minds, break the mold, and dare to be different. In support of our fellow independents, we’ve teamed up with a few presses to draw attention to big books from smaller publishers across the country. This month, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day. What books are you reading to celebrate? Join the conversation and use the hashtags #ireadindie and #InternationalWomensDay.
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Milkweed Editions at Open Book!
Join us for an evening honoring poets, their vital place in our culture, and their unique capacity to imagine, enliven, connect, and delight.
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017
At 5:30 p.m., join poets and poetry fans for a party in the Milkweed Editions office suite featuring poetry-themed drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Ticketed reception: $25 General Admission | $10 Student Ticket | FREE for Poets.
At 7:00 p.m., the party continues with a reading in the Target Performance Hall featuring the finalists for this year’s $10,000 Lindquist & Vennum…
A celebration of artist and scholar Gabrielle Civil’s new performance memoir, Swallow the Fish (Civil Coping Mechanisms).
Civil will perform her piece “economy,” featured in Swallow the Fish, in which she creates original work on a typewriter for shoppers in real time. Books will be available for purchase and signing, and for each person who buys a copy at Milkweed Books, Civil will write and sign a personalized typed poem or love letter. Materials provided for visitors to pen their own poems, too.
Gabrielle Civil is a black feminist performance artist, originally from Detroit, MI. She has…
We are pleased to announce that Analicia Sotelo is the inaugural winner of the Jake Adam York Prize for a first or second collection of poems, presented in partnership by Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions, judged by Ross Gay. Sotelo will receive $2,000 and her debut collection, Virgin, will be published by Milkweed Editions in February 2018.
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.
See Change brings together leading visionaries from diverse disciplines to share their insights on inspiring and navigating changes in the field of visual communication. Speakers include Jocelyn K. Glei (author, Unsubscribe), Mary Jo Hoffman (photographer, STILL), Seth Johnson (design advocate & head of client experience, IBM), Tim Scanlan (VP of Sports Broadcast, Octagon), Daniel Slager (publisher & CEO, Milkweed Editions), and Tommy Sunders (designer, PixelFarm VR Lab). seechangeconference.org.
Are you looking for an opportunity to learn more about publishing? Spend a semester or your summer break as an intern for one of the many book or magazine publishers in the Twin Cities! Join the Minnesota Book Publishers’ Roundtable for a 2017 internship fair, where publishers will be on-site to answer your questions, take resumes, and discuss the opportunities available at their companies. The informational interview portion of the fair will go from 5:30-7pm; additional networking will last from 7-7:30pm. We will have handouts with information on all participating companies. Bring copies of…
The Loft presents Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of the highly anticipated short story collection What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Lesley Arimah describes her debut collection as “a book that interrogates the Nigerian experience, exploring the past, present and future.” What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky joins a proud Riverhead Books publishing tradition of bringing attention to voices from around the world. Whimsically beautiful and delightfully strange, Arimah’s inventive and sharply observed stories have amassed a devoted…
