Washington , DC —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at The Potter's House featuring Liz Hottel
Join Jennifer Kabat in conversation with Liz Hottel about The Eighth Moon.
Baltimore, MD —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at Red Emma's featuring Paul Chaat Smith
Join author Jennifer Kabat in conversation about The Eighth Moon with Paul Chaat Smith.
Delhi, NY —
In person: Jennifer Kabat appearing at Bushel Collective featuring LA Kaufman
Join author Jennifer Kabat in conversation with LA Kaufman discussing The Eighth Moon.
Latif Askia Ba
Latif Askia Ba is a poet with Choreic Cerebral Palsy from Brooklyn, New York. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and was the Print Poetry Editor for the Columbia Journal’s sixty-first issue.
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Zoë Schlanger Book Launch at Milkweed Books
Come join Milkweed Books as we welcome Zoë Schlanger to Minneapolis to launch her new book, The Light Eaters: How Unseen Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth. Zoë will be joined in conversation by Ranae Hanson, author of Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress, winner of the 2022 Minnesota Book Award.
About the book
What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the…
Seattle, WA —
In person: Chris La Tray appearing at Elliott Bay Books
Join Chris La Tray in conversation about his memoir Becoming Little Shell: A Landless Indian’s Journey Home.
Providence, RI —
In person: John Cotter appearing at Riff Raff Books featuring Vikki Warner
Join John Cotter at Riff Raff Books for a reading from his new paperback release of Losing Music.
Awards & Prizes
Fady Joudah wins $100,000 Jackson Poetry Prize
“Distinguished by his courage to speak in the face of the unspeakable,
in poems of lyric concision and intensity.”
Poets & Writers announced today that Fady Joudah has won the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize, which this year carries an increased award of $100,000. Given annually by Poets & Writers to recognize an American poet of exceptional talent, the prize is endowed by a gift from the Liana Foundation and is named for the John and Susan Jackson family. There is no application process; poets are nominated by a panel of their peers, selected by Poets & Writers, who remain…
Authors / News
Honoring Tuệ Sỹ
Milkweed is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Tuệ Sỹ, whose poems we published in a bilingual edition last year as Dreaming the Mountain, with translations by Nguyen Ba Chung and Martha Collins. Born in 1943, Tuệ Sỹ joined a Zen order at the age of ten and later became an eminent Buddhist scholar, professor, translator, and poet. He actively resisted the idea that Buddhism should serve as a tool for any political agenda, and was well known for his dissidence.
Following study at the Institute of Buddhism in Nha Trang, Tuệ Sỹ moved to Saigon…
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. at Milkweed Books
Please join Milkweed Books in hosting poet Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. as he reads from his debut poetry collection Gay Poems for Red States.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In Gay Poems for Red States, Carver counters the injustice of a persistent anti-LGBTQ+ movement by asserting that a life full of beauty and pride is possible for everyone. More than a collection of poetry, Carver’s earnest and heartfelt verses are for those wishing to discover and understand the vastness of Appalachia, and for the LGBTQ+ Appalachians who long for a future—for a home—in an often unwelcoming place.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Willie…