Join Print: A Bookstore for a reading and book launch of Sarah V. Schweig’s The Ocean in the Next Room with Gibson Fay-LeBlanc.
Join Fabulist Magazine at Adobe Books for “Hungry Gods: Readings Against our Authoritarian Moment,” a book release for Heather Bourbeau that will feature T.K. Rex alongside Duane Horton and Nick Mamatas. A short writer panel on the theme with an audience Q&A will follow the readings.
Because reading is life-changing, and books make the best gifts! In addition to our perennial favorite gift book, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our hand-selected recommendations are here to help you work through your holiday list.
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For the romantic adventurer:
North American Odyssey by Amy & Dave Freeman
Imagine taking a 12,000 mile journey from the Pacific Northwest, through Canada, and all the way down the…
Join Elliot Bay Books for a reading with Rosalie Moffett, alongside local poet and friend of the store Luther Hughes.
Join Brooklyn Poets in partnership with Books are Magic to celebrate the launch of Latif Askia Ba’s The Choreic Period. Latif Askia Ba and Jay Deshpande will both read their work, followed by a discussion and audience Q&A. This in-person event will also be livestreamed on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/live/g2A0DLUKo6A.
Please join us in honoring and celebrating […] by Fady Joudah, 2024 National Book Award Finalist for Poetry.
“Fady Joudah’s […] scribes the elliptical seam between heritage and history into a sustained meditation on war, displacement, and love. Punctuated with the music of maqam in the marrow of its mission, this timeless collection illuminates an existential Palestinian struggle that rises to the universal through Joudah’s deft, querying verse.”—National Book Award judges citation
From the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize winner and one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, this urgent and essential collection combats the erasure of Palestinian resistance and…
Join the panel “HARD-WON HOLINESS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH JESSICA JACOBS & AVA NATHANIEL WINTER” for a discussion on the tender and difficult poetry found between religious traditions, queer desire, Jewish transfemininity, cultural histories, and the ethical knots of sacred texts. Structured around the 12 parshiyot (portions) of Genesis, JESSICA JACOBS’ unalone parallels immersion in Jewish teachings with the contemporary world and the author’s experiences growing up queer, embracing one’s sexuality, reversing roles as the adult child of aging parents, and other imposed roles of…
Please join Karen Babine for the celebration of her latest work, The Allure of Elsewhere.
Natalie Wollenzien is the marketing and publicity coordinator at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed, she worked in marketing and operations for Sarabande Books, and has written freelance reviews for Foreword Reviews since 2023. She writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
Morissa Young is an editor at Milkweed Editions. Before joining the team, she worked as a graduate teaching assistant at the UNCW Publishing Laboratory, editorial and acquisitions lead at Lookout Books, and spread designer for Ecotone. She earned her MFA in poetry and certificate in publishing from the University of North Carolina–Wilmington, and her BA in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
