Join us in the bookstore as we celebrate ONE YEAR of Milkweed Books, named BEST BOOKSTORE 2017 by CityPages! Featuring a street sale, book swap, special deals, and sweet treats, with one-day-only extended Sunday hours. It’s been a great year, and we can’t wait to share the next one with you!
We are pleased to announce that Jos Charles has been named one of five winners of the 2017 National Poetry Series. feeld was selected by Fady Joudah and will be published in September 2018 by Milkweed Editions.
Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, selected by Fady Joudah.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of two very special books today: Alex Lemon’s Feverland: A Memoir in Shards and William Brewer’s National Poetry Series-winning collection of poems I Know Your Kind. Both share a common impulse to meet pain and stigma with beauty and art.
September marks one year since Dave and Amy Freeman left the Boundary Waters and returned to civilization. Join Milkweed Editions and the Campaign to Save the Boundary Waters to celebrate this special anniversary and the release of Dave and Amy Freeman’s new book A Year in the Wilderness.
Join Alex Lemon and Matthew Pitt at the Live Oak “Home Grown” Reading Series at the Texas Christian University Bookstore. Lemon will read from his latest book, Feverland: A Memoir in Shards.
Join Milkweed Books and On Being Executive Producer Lily Percy for the Twin Cities launch of Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone—author John Cary’s new book on the dignifying power of design.
JOHN CARY is the author of two books and a trained architect who has devoted his career to expanding the practice of design for the public good. His writing on design, philanthropy, and fatherhood appears in The New York Times and on CNN.com, among many other publications. John works as an advisor to TED, The Aspen Institute, and other foundations and nonprofits around the world.
Milkweed Books presents Minneapolis-based author and artist Kelsey Oseid and What We See in the Stars (Ten Speed Press), her first book as both author and illustrator. Join us in the bookstore for a launch party and special showing of Kelsey’s original artwork.
Kelsey Oseid is an illustrator, painter, artist, and amateur naturalist who has illustrated a variety of children’s books and runs an online shop where she sells prints and original pieces of her nature-themed work. Her work has been featured on Design*Sponge, Oh So Beautiful Paper, Everglow Handmade, and in magazines like Organic…
Alex Lemon’s new memoir, Feverland, is a fragmented exploration of trauma, the fallibility of the body, and the joys of being alive. Listen to him introduce the book and read from the first essay, “EKG.”
This month, Celia recommends three books that discuss our pasts and how we memorialize them, and how we deal with places we’ve left behind.
