Join Robin Wall Kimmerer for a discussion on restoration, reciprocity, and healing relationships with the natural world.

Update: Kalia is so popular! Our Eventbrite link says sold out, but this event is free and open to the public, no tickets or RSVP required to attend.

Please join Milkweed as we welcome Kao Kalia Yang to our bookstore for a reading of her two newest children’s books, Caged and The Rock in My Throat, and a discussion around her memoir, Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life. This a family-friendly event, with book illustrations and snacks geared towards children. We encourage you to bring everyone along.

About the speaker

Kao Kalia Yang is a Hmong American teacher, speaker, and writer…

Join Milkweed Editions in celebrating the launch of If Today Were Tomorrow, Michael Bazzett’s translation of internationally renowned K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal. Enjoy a social hour with light refreshments on the Open Book balcony, on the third floor beginning at 6:30 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation in the Open Book Performance Hall beginning at 7 p.m.

Join Lauren Russell for a reading from A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close, and in conversation with Sylvia Byrne Pollack, Erin Malone, and Julie Marie Wade.

This event will take place on Zoom, register here.

Join Jennifer Kabat and Monica Nelson for a reading at the Zadoc Pratt Museum.

Join Jennifer Kabat for a reading and discussion at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

In this Author Talk and discussion, Senior Curator Susan Cross talks with Kabat about her capacious memoir, The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion, in which the past comes alive in the present. When Jennifer Kabat moves to the Catskills, she has no idea that it was the site of the Anti-Rent War, an early episode of American rural populism — a rebellion, guns, and murder.

Join 24th U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón for the national kick off of “You Are Here: Poetry in Parks.” This initiative will feature site-specific poetry installations in seven national parks across the country, beginning with the Cape Cod National Seashore. During the free public celebration at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Ada Limón will read each poem featured as part of the project. She will then sign copies of the new anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the National World.

You Are Here: Poetry in Parks is a partnership between the Library of Congress, National Park Service, and…

On December 3 at 1 p.m., the public is invited to join Ada Limón for the National Parks Service “Poetry in Parks” unveiling. This event is open to the public.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will unveil a picnic table with an overlay featuring the poem “Na:nko Ma:s Cewagĭ / Cloud Song” by Ofelia Zepeda.

Seven national parks, including Cape Cod National Seashore, were selected by Limón to be part of her signature project “You are Here: Poetry in Parks.” The initiative is a partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the Poetry Society of America that features site…

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER

On October 8 at 3 p.m., the public is invited to join Ada Limón for the National Parks Service “Poetry in Parks” unveiling. This event is open to the public.

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will unveil a picnic table with an overlay featuring the poem “Ecology” by June Jordan.

Seven national parks, including Cape Cod National Seashore, were selected by Limón to be part of her signature project “You are Here: Poetry in Parks.” The initiative is a partnership with the Library of Congress, the National Park Service, and the Poetry Society of America that…