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Join Milkweed Editions for the Book Lovers Ball!
Join three hundred fellow readers and literary enthusiasts in Minneapolis for the Book Lovers Ball, the largest annual fundraiser supporting the work of Milkweed Editions. Enjoy a seated dinner, a live auction, storytelling by featured authors Amy and Dave Freeman, and more!
Minneapolis, MN
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Zachary Schomburg at Milkweed Books
Milkweed Books is pleased to present poet and author Zachary Schomburg in celebration of Mammother, his first novel. Join us in the bookstore as Zachary reads from Mammother, a fabulist’s tale of tangled relationships to death, money, and love that Aimee Bender describes as “utterly its own thing, strange and wondrous.”
Zachary Schomburg is a poet, novelist, illustrator, teacher, and the publisher and editor of Octopus Books. He lives in Portland, OR.
Editors
Milkweed’s Literary Legacy: Notes from the Archivist
Carissa Hansen, the Project Archivist at the Upper Midwest Literary Archives (UMLA), has spent hours sifting through and organizing the years of history contained in Milkweed’s archives. As part of the Prairie Poets and Press project, Carissa writes about the Widwestern literary legends that live in these files, illuminating Milkweed’s history and the vast legacy of Minnesota writers.
Carissa Hansen
Carissa Hansen is the Project Archivist in the Upper Midwest Literary Archives for the University of Minnesota Libraries’ Prairie Poets and Press: Literary Lives of the Upper Midwest grant, financed in part with funds provided by the State of Minnesota from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the Minnesota Historical Society.
Authors / Watch & Listen
Book Trailer: A Year in the Wilderness
When Amy and Dave Freeman learned of toxic mining proposed along the edge of the Boundary Waters, they decided they needed to take action—by spending an entire year in the Wilderness, sharing their experience through video, photos, and a blog that reached hundreds of thousands of concerned citizens. A Year in the Wilderness is their story.
Amy & Dave Freeman
Amy and Dave Freeman are the authors of A Year in the Wilderness. They have traveled over thirty thousand miles by canoe, kayak, and dogsled through some of the world’s wildest places, from the Amazon to the Arctic, and National Geographic named them Adventurers of the Year in 2014.
Jan Wagner
Jan Wagner is a German poet, essayist, and translator. His collections of poems include Guerickes Sperling, Achtzehn Pasteten, Australien, and Regentonnenvariationen, for which he was awarded the Prize of the Leipzig Bookfair.
Bookstore / Roundup
Read This Next: Emerging Writers (July)
During our Kickstarter campaign, one of the promises we made was to support emerging writers—those with just a debut or second book to their name. Emerging writers often struggle to reach readers in the marketplace because it favors guaranteed sales from proven authors, so we pledged to read, stock, and celebrate their books in part by devoting an entire section of Milkweed Books to their work. Our front display (the first thing you see when you walk in the door!) is dedicated to these important books, but that’s not the only place you can find them. Shelf talkers noting “Debut Author!” punctuate…
David Keplinger
David Keplinger is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Another City, which was awarded the 2019 UNT Rilke Prize, and Ice, which won the 2024 Ellen Anderson Award from the Poetry Society of Virginia.