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Join Students for Justice in Palestine at Rice University, Rice Asian Diasporic and Asian American Research Collective, and Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Houston for the release of Fady Joudah’s book, […].
Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Cynthia Cruz has chosen Sarah V. Schweig’s collection of poems, The Ocean in the Next Room, as the winner of the 2023–24 Jake Adam York Prize. The Ocean in the Next Room will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2025, and Schweig will receive $2,000.
Sarah V. Schweig’s first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Tin House, and the Yale Review, among others, and her critical essays have…
Join us at the Library of Congress for Live! at the Library: You Are Here Celebration with Ada Limón
The kickoff event for the U.S. Poet Laureate’s signature project, including the publication of the new anthology You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Featuring Ada Limón with poets Molly McCully Brown, Jake Skeets, Analicia Sotelo, and Paul Tran.
This event will be live-streamed here.
Translator Wendy Call appears in-person with the poets Mikeas Sánchez and Irma Pineda, appearing virtually, for a quadrilingual reading. The poets will read from their recently released collections, How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow Away the Riverwater, both of which were translated from Spanish into English by Wendy.
Debra Magpie Earling wasn’t exactly surprised when her first novel, Perma Red, was banned after its re-release in 2022. She’d already faced more than her fair share of adversity bringing the book to fruition: after spending nearly a decade conceiving of the first draft, she would lose it to a cabin fire. After tirelessly working to rewrite the story, she’d be advised—repeatedly—to adapt the ending of the work to cater to Western audiences. And after finally signing her first publication deal in 2002, the imprint would shutter its doors and force the novel out of print just four years…
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara at the AAC Creative Writing Reading Series.
Join Yalie Saweda Kamara for a reading with C. Dylan Bassett, highlighting Besaydoo.
Join Joseph-Beth for Yalie Saweda Kamara, Olatunde Osinaike & Dan “Sully” Sullivan discussing and signing Besaydoo, Tender Headed, & O Body.
Traci Brimhall is the author of Love Prodigal, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2024.
Ruth Awad is a Lebanese American poet, 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.
