Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Chris La Tray at Mill City Museum
This event is hosted by Milkweed Editions and presented in partnership with Birchbark Books and Mill City Museum.
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Kinsale Drake book launch with Heid E. Erdrich
Please join us as we welcome debut poet KINSALE DRAKE to Milkweed Books to read from her collection The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket. She will be joined by Minneapolis Poet Laureate HEID E. ERDRICH.
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Sky Was Once a Dark Blanket traverses the Southwest landscape, exploring intricate relationships between Native peoples and the natural world, land, pop culture, twentieth-century music, and multi-generational representations. Oscillating between musical influences, including the repercussions of ethno-musicology, and the present/past/future, the collection rewrites and re-rights…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Kenzie Allen book launch with Kimberly Blaeser
Please join us as we welcome debut author KENZIE ALLEN to Milkweed Books to read from her collection Cloud Missives. She will be joined in conversation by poet and founding director of Indigenous Nations Poets, KIMBERLY BLAESER.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Intimate, dissecting, and liberating, Cloud Missives is a poetry collection of excavation and renewal. Like an anthropologist, Kenzie Allen reveals a life from what endures after tragedies and acts of survival. Across four sections, poems explore pop culture—the stereotypes in Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, and beyond—fairy tales, myths, protests, and…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Okwudili Nebeolisa book launch with Donika Kelly
Please join us as we welcome debut author OKWUDILI NEBEOLISA to Milkweed Books to read from his collection Terminal Maladies. He will be joined in conversation by poet DONIKA KELLY.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Okwudili Nebeolisa’s debut poetry collection, Terminal Maladies, serves as an intimate exploration of the relationship between a mother and son and their emotional journey during her battle with cancer. Throughout the book, Nebeolisa attempts to reconcile his guilt of starting a new life in the United States, far away from his mother and his home in Nigeria.
Depicting tender moments, Terminal Maladies…
Helen Whybrow
Helen Whybrow is the author of A Man Apart and Dead Reckoning. She is also the editor of the anthologies Hearth and Coming to Land in a Troubled World.
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Prose Open House
Join Coffee House Press and Milkweed Editions as we celebrate prose writing with a Prose Open House!
Doors will open at 5:30pm, readings begin at 6:00pm
Shop for books, enjoy live readings, and meet and mingle with fellow Twin Cities literature lovers!
Writer Lineup:
Victoria Blanco
Jennifer Bowen
Greg Hewett
Jana Larson
Juliet Patterson
Erin Sharkey
Authors
Rest in Peace, Darrel J. McLeod
CREDIT ILJA HERB
Milkweed Editions is deeply saddened to share that Darrel J. McLeod passed away late last week after a sudden illness. He was 67. Darrel was an uncommonly beautiful and gentle soul whose stories about finding his voice as a two-spirit, Indigenous man moved readers across the globe. Along with his activism and service to Indigenous causes, particularly in Canada, his books brought forth vital stories of heritage, compassion, forgiveness, and hope.
“I am saddened by the news of Darrel’s passing, if also profoundly grateful to have called him a friend. He was an exceptionally beautiful human being.”—Daniel Slager, Publisher…
Washington, DC —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at Potter’s House with Liz Hottel
Join author Jennifer Kabat for a reading and discussion of The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion.
Port Townsend, WA —
In person: Rick Barot and Melissa Kwasny appearing at Poetry on the Salish Sea featuring Jacqueline Allen Trimble
Join for the final gathering of the series with readings by Rick Barot, Melissa Kwasny and Jacqueline Allen Trimble.
The readings will be conducted outdoors. Attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly and bring chairs or blankets for seating.
Chapel Hill, NC —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Flyleaf Books
Join author Chris La Tray for a book signing and reading of Becoming Little Shell.
Signing line begins at 5:30pm and the talk begins at 6pm.
Flyleaf will offer seating for up to 70 in-person guests, with priority access given to folks who purchase the book.