Milkweed Books, Graywolf Press, & Rain Taxi Review of Books present DOBBY GIBSON and the launch of his newest collection Hold Everything, in reading and conversation with Carmen Giménez. This is a bookend event of the 2024 Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival.

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In his latest collection, DOBBY GIBSON explores the strangeness of the everyday with fresh urgency, inviting us to reawaken and reclaim our fuller selves. Hold Everything moves at the speed of breaking news as it makes a plea for grace in a world running short on mercy. Its epistolary poems put us in correspondence with Edo…

Join authors Michael Bazzett and Bailey Hutchinson at Sisyphus Brewing for Poets & Pints #111. They will be reading from titles in Multiverse, a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging.

Multiverse is a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging, curated by neurodivergent poet Chris Martin, and featuring a chorus of editorial voices. Multiverse primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. The desire of Multiverse is to serially surface multiple universes of underheard language…

Come join Milkweed Books and Graywolf Press as we launch The Age of Loneliness by LAURA MARRIS. She will be joined in reading and conversation by Victoria Blanco, Kathryn Savage, and Moheb Soliman.

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In this debut essay collection, LAURA MARRIS reframes environmental degradation by setting aside the conventional, catastrophic framework of the Anthropocene in favor of that of the Eremocene, the age of loneliness, marked by the dramatic thinning of wildlife populations and by isolation between and among species. She asks: How do we add to archives of ecological memory? How can we…

Please join Milkweed Editions as we welcome our author REBECCA SPIEGEL to Minneapolis to read from her book Without Her: A Chronicle of Grief and Love. She will be joined in conversation by CHRIS STEDMAN, a writer, activist, and professor.

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Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister’s suicide. Only after the funeral does shock give way to grief—and to many questions. How could Emily do this to herself? How could she have abandoned all those who loved her? And what could have been done differently to prevent this devastating loss?

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Join Milkweed Editions and O’Shaughnessy Distilling Co. for an unforgettable evening that brings to life the rich culture of Ireland’s most rugged region.

With readings from Tim Robinson’s renowned Connemara trilogy — a breathtakingly intimate exploration of the area’s geography, ecology, history, language, and mythology — and cocktails inspired by the stories themselves, the spirits of Connemara and the craftsmanship of Keeper’s Heart will combine creating a cultural pairing you won’t soon forget.

Whether you’re a book lover, whiskey connoisseur, or simply seeking an evening of cultural…

Please join Milkweed Books as we welcome DIDI JACKSON in celebrating her newest collection My Infinity from Red Hen Press. Poets KATE NUERNBERGER, PETER CAMPION, and MITA MAHATO will be joining to for a lively discussion around ekphrastic work and how poetry and visual art intersect.

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In her second collection, DIDI JACKSON continues her exploration of the paradoxical meaning of a world where joy and sorrow simultaneously coexist. These poems investigate both sacred and natural spaces. Her poems move grief and emotional suffering to language as a site of recovery and renewal. Much…

Join Lauren Russell for a reading from her newest collection, A Window that can Neither Open Nor Close. She will be joined by Joanna Fuhrman and Anselm Berrigan.

Join Sharman Apt Russel for a reading and signing of her new book, What Walks This Way: Discovering the Wildlife Around Us Through Their Tracks and Signs. Sharman will be in conversation with Priyanka Kumar as part of the Writing the Wild event series with the Leopold Writing Program.

Join Scott Chaskey for a reading and conversation about Soil and Spirit.