New York, NY —
In person: Weijia Pan at Poets House, featuring Chen Chen
Celebrate the launch of Motherlands by Weijia Pan at Poets House, featuring reading and conversation by the author and Chen Chen.
Authors / Interviews
Four questions with Daywork author Jessica Fisher
How do artists work within constrictions of time? How can our existence be traced through art? How does writing ekphrastic poetry compare with linguistic translation? How is historical time considered with care in stretching both towards the past and into the future? These are some of the questions poet Jessica Fisher unpacks with her work in Daywork and in our Q&A below!
Milkweed Staff: Daywork takes its title from the giornata—the term in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day. When did you first discover this concept? And what…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Milkweed Books Presents Joselyn Takacs with Lauren Langston Klein
Join Milkweed Books and Milkweed Managing Editor Lauren Langston Klein as we welcome author JOSELYN TAKACS in launching her debut novel, Pearce Oysters, out now with Zibby Media. The program will include a reading from the author, followed by an editorial conversation with Lauren Langston Klein. They will discuss novel-writing as a craft, the editorial process, publishing how-tos, and moderate a lively Q + A.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A divided family. A devastated community. And the disaster that brings them all together.
Pearce Oysters, a family drama set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic…
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Moon Palace Books
Join Heidi Barr (Minnesota author of Collisions of Earth and Sky & 12 Tiny Things), Chris La Tray (Montana’s Poet Laureate and author of Becoming Little Shell), and Krissy Kludt (Wisconsin-based director of Writing the Wild) on Monday, October 21st at 6:30pm as they discuss Stories from the Trail, a new anthology about moving through wild spaces and share more stories and readings from recent work.
**This is an in-person event. Masks are required in store.**
Olympia, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Browsers Bookshop
Join author Chris La Tray for a reading and discussion about his memoir Becoming Little Shell.
Bellingham, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Village Books
Join Village Books in welcoming Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray as he shares his memoir, Becoming Little Shell.
Spokane, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Liberty Park with Auntie's Books
Join for a book reading and signing with Métis storyteller and Montana Poet Laureate Chris La Tray. Auntie’s Bookstore will sell copies of La Tray’s new memoir, Becoming Little Shell.
Helena, MT —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing with the Montana Book Co./Montana Arts Council at Holter Museum of Art
Join Chris La Tray, Montana’s Poet Laureate and a member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, for the launch of his memoir, Becoming Little Shell, a presentation and a book signing.
Presented by the Montana Arts Council and Montana Book Company.
Minneapolis, MN —
In person: Dobby Gibson book launch with Carmen Giménez
Milkweed Books, Graywolf Press, & Rain Taxi Review of Books present DOBBY GIBSON and the launch of his newest collection Hold Everything, in reading and conversation with Carmen Giménez. This is a bookend event of the 2024 Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In his latest collection, DOBBY GIBSON explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo…
Minneapolis, MN —
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In Person: Multiverse: Poets & Pints 111 featuring Michael Bazzett and Bailey Hutchinson at Sisyphus Brewing
Join authors Michael Bazzett and Bailey Hutchinson at Sisyphus Brewing for Poets & Pints #111. They will be reading from titles in Multiverse, a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging.
Multiverse is a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging, curated by neurodivergent poet Chris Martin, and featuring a chorus of editorial voices. Multiverse primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. The desire of Multiverse is to serially surface multiple universes of underheard language…