Poet Ed Bok Lee kicks off this new monthly event series with a screening of Arrival, followed by a conversation with Spanish and Latin American Studies professor Andrea Bell. Hosted by Angela Pelster at Bryant Lake Bowl, with books sales provided by Milkweed Books.
Writer Ada Limón recently said, “Poems have always been a place of questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days.”
We all turn to literature for different reasons, but that act of reaching for a book is one we each know intimately. The appeal of a beautiful cover, the feel of a book’s weight and texture; the anticipation of what joy, comfort, truth, or new curiosity might be waiting inside.
Milkweed Editions publishes some twenty books each year, and a passionate, generous community supports every one of them. You support editorial collaboration to help writers develop their books to their…
Grady Chambers was born and raised in Chicago. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, attended the MFA program at Syracuse University, and has received fellowships from the Norman Mailer Center and the New York State Summer Writers Institute.
Milkweed Editions, in partnership with Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, is pleased to announce that Grady Chambers is the winner of the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. For his manuscript, North American Stadiums, chosen by acclaimed poet and judge Henri Cole, Chambers will receive $10,000 and publication by Milkweed Editions in June 2018.
Exactly two years ago today, Amy and Dave Freeman were journaling at “home” in their tent, camped in the middle of the Boundary Waters. Now they’re the author of a beautiful, important book and are fighting hard to protect and preserve the land.
Elizabeth Rush is the author of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth and Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
“How shall I live? It seems to me that a great press not only helps ask just that question, but also offers us books to fill our shelves that help us articulate that very mystery, of having a life in a living world and how best to do the least harm. No kind of book is excluded from such a venture, and so it is that no reader is excluded either. And that’s a press that I can feel devotion to—not a small word, I know, but the right one to use and how I feel about Milkweed as a press that invites us all in.”
“Milkweed understands what the world needs, not only to survive, but to come together and get along. The genesis of how we grow, function, and sustain as cultural human beings is up to the community builders like Milkweed. I’m proud to be part of the community that Milkweed builds. I’m not only a better writer for it, I’m a more grateful human being.”
