Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and Mississippi Delta conjure. Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future (2020) is her first all prose collection.
Sign on for our second annual Milkweed member event: a 2024 publishing preview with Publisher and CEO, Daniel Slager. Join for behind-the-scenes stories of books on our list that we are excited to publish this year, followed by time for Q&A.
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Join for the launch of Besaydoo, the award-winning highly acclaimed debut full-length poetry collection from Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara. Following this reading, Yalie will be joined in conversation with poet, author and professor Ross Gay. Questions will also be fielded from the audience.
6:00 pm: Reception
7:00 pm Program
8:15: Book sales & signing
Join Jennifer duBois in conversation with Lori Feathers at the Interabang store discussingThe Last Language.
Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future.
Ellen Wayland-Smith is the author of Oneida and The Angel in the Marketplace. Her work has appeared in Guernica, Catapult, The Millions, Longreads, The American Scholar, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Lauren Russell is the author of A Window That Can Neither Open nor Close; Descent, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 Anna Rabinowitz Award; and What’s Hanging on the Hush.
Join us as Milkweed Books welcomes Saretta Morgan for a reading from her new poetry book Alt-Nature, an emergent chorus feeling toward languages of connection in the American Southwest. Saretta will read from Alt-Nature and talk about her book in conversation with poet Douglas Kearney, followed by time for audience questions and a book signing.
Please join us at 6 PM at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the first floor of Open Book, for an unforgettable night of poetry!
About the book
Alt-Nature moves in desert dreams and riverbeds. Here, geography forms the…
Bruce Humes is the translator of the bestseller Shanghai Baby by Wei Hui and other works. He is an American literary translator and critic of Chinese literature, specializing in non-Han Chinese authors. He is currently translating Hollowed Out by Liu Liangcheng.
Chi Zijian received the Mao Dun Literary Award—the highest honor for a novelist in China—for The Last Quarter of the Moon, which has been translated into ten languages.
