Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: Ada Limón appearing at The University of Minnesota

The Walter Nathan Literary Initiatives presents Ada Limón, the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Her book Bright Dead Things was nominated for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her new book of poetry, The Hurting Kind, is out now from Milkweed Editions.

Free and open to the public. For questions about accessibility services and the venue, please email sutt0063@umn.edu or call 612-626-1528. No…

The Hospital for Bad Poets
Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: J.C. Hallman at Milkweed Books, for Say Anarcha

Join us for an incredible event as McKnight fellow J.C. Hallman presents his latest book of nonfiction, Say Anarcha, at Milkweed Books. Hallman will read from Say Anarcha—his book unearthing the story of the enslaved woman known as “The Mother of Gynecology” and the dangerous, experimental surgeries conducted on her—and discuss the book with Dr. Rahel Nardos of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility and Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health.

We invite you to join us at this special reading at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar…

Authors / Events

Celebrating the decade-long impact of Braiding Sweetgrass

Milkweed Staff — 09/20/2023

Robin Wall Kimmerer didn’t set out to change the world—or even to become particularly famous within the canon of environmental literature, which was infamously comprised of homogeneously white voices for decades. Rather, the Indigenous ecologist-turned-author seemed to be operating like a scientist from the outset: her observations led her to understand that the world needed a change, and so she proposed an effective solution. In the face of ongoing biodiversity loss and climate change, Kimmerer observed that scientists had the tools to enact necessary change, but Indigenous communities held the spirit and ancestral knowledge vital to doing so with dignity…

Authors / News / Awards & Prizes

Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe wins 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

Milkweed Staff — 09/19/2023

We are thrilled to announce that Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe is the winner of the Academy of American Poets 2023 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. This $25,000 prize recognizes the most outstanding book of poetry published in the United States in the previous year.

Codjoe has received a 2023 Whiting Award, a 2017 Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, and a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship. She is the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. Bluest Nude was a finalist for both the NAACP Image Award in Outstanding Poetry…

Saint Paul, MN —

In Person: Claire Wahmanholm appearing at The Memory Fields of Water at East Side Freedom Library

Women writers will share their work on the many aspects of water—celebration, crisis, rescue, legacy, exploration, and place of healing. A conversation and collaboration of arts and action.

Catherine Reid Day, Claire Wahanholm, Cole W. Williams, Diane Brady-Leighton, Diane Jarvenpa, Dralandra Larkins, Freya Manfred, Grace Guenthner, Ellen Rogers, Erin Sharkey, Heid Erdrich, Kathryn Kysar, Leslie Thomas, Lora Robinson, Margaret Hasse, Margi Preus, Noelle Wang, Pat Barron, Rebecca Ramsden, Sharon Chmielarz, Sheila O’Keefe, Su Hwang, Zoë Bird

The Oshkii Giizhik Singers from the Fond du Lac…

New York, NY —

In person: Ama Codjoe appearing at The Guggenheim Museum

Poetry Is Not a Luxury Day 1: Poetic Freedom (Live Podcast Taping)

Grounded in the sentiment of Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” this two-day gathering brings contemporary artists and poets together with museum audiences to explore poetry’s ability to invoke sensuality, caesura, and care. Designed by 2023 Poet-in-Residence Ama Codjoe, this convening of discussion and exchange will illuminate poetry’s role in enabling humans to imagine, dream, and craft the kind of language that precipitates political action, communal nurturing, and social change.

Free with RSVP. Registration is…

New York, NY —

In Person: Ama Codjoe appearing at The Guggenheim Museum

Poetry Is Not a Luxury Day 2: Poetic License

Grounded in the sentiment of Audre Lorde’s 1977 essay “Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” this two-day gathering brings contemporary artists and poets together with museum audiences to explore poetry’s ability to invoke sensuality, caesura, and care. Designed by 2023 Poet-in-Residence Ama Codjoe, this convening of discussion and exchange will illuminate poetry’s role in enabling humans to imagine, dream, and craft the kind of language that precipitates political action, communal nurturing, and social change.

Free with RSVP. Registration is required. Please…

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