Join us for the return of our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by A Darker Wilderness editor Erin Sharkey! Erin will lead readings and a conversation about the intertwined and symbiotic relationship that nature has with our bodies, with special guest speakers Aegor Ray, Davi Gray, and Anaïs Deal-Márquez.

Please join us in-person at the Open Book Performance Hall at 6 PM for an unforgettable reading and discussion, and come early for a social hour at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore, at 5:30 PM!

Milkweed Presents is a monthly…

Join us for the final entry in our spring monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by The Seed Keeper author Diane Wilson! Diane will lead readings and conversation about writing amidst climate change with Erin Sharkey, editor of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars, and special guest poet Halee Kirkwood.

Enjoy a social hour and book-signing in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore—Milkweed Books—beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation in the Open Book Performance Hall beginning at 6 p.m.

Our Spring 2024 slate of…

Join us for the April entry in our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by Meltwater author Claire Wahmanholm! Claire will lead readings and a conversation, featuring Moheb Soliman, Halee Kirkwood, and Kathryn Kysar.

Enjoy a social hour and book-signing in our brick-and-mortar indie bookstore Milkweed Books beginning at 5 p.m., followed by the reading and conversation in the Open Book Performance Hall beginning at 6 p.m.

About the speakers

Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder, Redmouth, and, most recently, Meltwater, which was a finalist for the 2024…

Join us for the our monthly reading and panel discussion event series Milkweed Presents, hosted by Worldly Things author Michael Kleber-Diggs! Michael will lead readings and a conversation on the topic of art and activism during times of global and civil conflict with special guest speakers Sun Yung Shin and Michael Torres.

Please join us in-person at Open Book for an unforgettable reading and discussion at 6 p.m., and come early for a book-signing and social hour at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore, at 5 p.m.

Milkweed Presents is a monthly event series featuring…

Join us for a special event as we welcome poets Michael Bazzett, Edgar Kunz, Melissa Cundieff and Moheb Soliman for a reading and conversation. Together, these authors will discuss their work’s relationship to loss, change, ecology, urbanization, and the shifting terrain of late-capitalist America.

Michael Bazzett is the author of You Must Remember This, which received the 2014 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, The Interrogation, and most recently The Echo Chamber. He is also the translator of The Popol Vuh, the first English verse translation of the Mayan creation epic, which was named one…

Ada Limón launches her signature project as the nation’s Poet Laureate—a joyful and provocative anthology of nature poems commissioned from 50 of the most celebrated American poets. Join Limón for this evening of readings and conversation featuring contributors Ilya Kaminsky, Patricia Smith, and Kevin Young.

There will be a book signing at this event. This event is ticketed and the expected run time is 75 minutes.

Join us for the launch of Dreaming Our Futures: Ojibwe and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Artists and Knowledge Keepers, with editors Brenda J. Child and Howard Oransky. With contributor and The Seed Keeper author Diane Wilson, they’ll discuss their new book, a beautiful collection of the art and life stories of regional Native painters, primarily Dakota and Ojibwe, who encompass a range of generations, professional experience, and genres.

Brenda J. Child is Northrop Professor of American Studies and former chair of the Departments of American Studies (2016–19) and the Department of American Indian Studies…