Milkweed Books presents a celebration of the release of a double-broadside printed by Sam Gould of Beyond Repair, in honor of the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read. Featuring poetry and performance from Harmony Holiday and her experimental collection Hollywood Forever (Fence 2017), as well as Minneapolis-based artists D. Allen and Erin Sharkey.
Milkweed Books presents Alison McGhee, Minnesota Book Award winning local author, with a launch event in celebration of her fifth novel, Never Coming Back. McGhee’s latest is a moving novel which explores the relationship between a mother and daughter on the brink of reconnection, even as they must both come to terms with the mother’s early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Alison Mcghee is an award-winning novelist, whose previous books for children and adults have been featured by the Today Show, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
Join us at The Loft Literary Center for a special evening as Eileen Myles presents their new memoir, Afterglow. Book sales provided by Milkweed Books. Afterglow joins a grand literary tradition of writers paying homage to a beloved dog, but Myles’ entry in the canon subverts both genre and tradition and stands apart as resolutely its own thing. Combining screenplay, monologue, science fiction, and lucid memory, the text is animated with photos, diagrams, drawings, and poems. Afterglow illuminates the surreal and familiar aspects of what it means to dedicate your existence to a dog.
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Dalia Rosenfeld, author of the debut story collection The Worlds We Think We Know, joined Milkweed editor Joey McGarvey in a discussion about place, humor, and literary influences. From the meaning of symbolism to the catalysts for character creation, Rosenfeld recounts how her book came into being.
Milkweed Editions, in partnership with Riva Ariella Ritvo-Slifka and the Alan B. Slifka Foundation, is pleased to announce the inaugural Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. The winning poet will receive publication by Milkweed Editions in April 2018 and $10,000, making the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize the most lucrative first-book prize.
Feeling a lack of meaningful connection to their cultural roots—Lurie as the son of a reticent Holocaust survivor, José attempting to access a communal histroy obliterated by centuries of oppression—Canoeing with José is the story of two men who embark on a two-thousand mile paddle from Breckenridge, Minnesota to the Hudson Bay. Faced with mosquitoes, extreme weather, suspicious law enforcement officers, tricky border crossings, and José’s preference for Kanye West over the great outdoors„ the trip becomes an oddysey of self-discovery and companionship.
Their friend, Markus Hoeckner, produced a short documentary about their friendship.
“I can see, looking back…
Does a book seem small in influence compared to the monstrous forces of mean-spirited avarice that shadow our public life today? Sure. But why do we remember Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, or James Baldwin?
