Montreal, QC —

In Person: Claire Wahmanholm appearing at McGill University in partnership with the Montreal Poetry Prize

Join Claire Wahmanholm at McGill University for a reading and award ceremony as well as a workshop.

Workshop will run from 10-12 PM at Peterson Hall, Room 116. The workshop will focus on the art of abecedarians and is presented by the Poetry Matters initiative.

Ceremony will begin at 4:00 PM in the Arts Building, Room 160. The ceremony will be hosted by the Montreal International Poetry Prize.

Minneapolis, MN —

In person: Elizabeth Rush appearing at Mill City Museum

Join us for an evening with Elizabeth Rush, celebrating her latest book,The Quickening—an astonishing, vital work about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood. Rush will be joined in conversation by climate activism leaders Analyah Schlaeger dos Santos and Margaret Cherne-Hendrick to discuss the power of collective storytelling in facing the climate crisis. The event will also feature a reading from The Quickening and photographs from Rush’s voyage.

Doors open at 6:30 pm, event begins at 7:00 pm. Books will be for sale, and Rush will be available for signing after the event.

Imane Boukaila

Imane Boukaila is the author of Tressing Motions at the Edge of Mistakes and a moving nomad thinker, daring to tress hope in tormented voids. She is a nonspeaking autistic poet and the co-founder of Hear Our Minds, an art movement motioning autistic revolution.

Minneapolis, MN —
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Milkweed Books Birthday Bash

Milkweed Books invites you to celebrate one year of our independent brick-and-mortar bookstore’s reopening with a special one-day-only shopping experience! Browse the store with complimentary snacks and refreshments as we provide exclusive sales for the day to ring in the occasion!

This year, we’re bringing a new promotion to the store for one day only. On Saturday, August 26 only, a select number of our bestsellers from our first year back—published by Milkweed Editions and beyond—will be available for 10% off. Plus, our booksellers have also each selected three of their favorite titles that…

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On K Iver’s Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco—an elegy, an ode, an opening

Milkweed Staff — 06/16/2023

“In the beginning, yes, a garden. As lush as you’re imagining.” So begins K. Iver’s tender and heart-wrenching debut; what follows is a coming of age story of creation and demise, a love story upended by suicide. The collection’s fleeting first images of doting parents (a fantasy), dogwoods in bloom, a boy—later referred to by the poems’ speaker as Missy—who “looks at you the way someone must have when you were born” quickly give way to images of a paternal pattern of abuse, the cold interior of a psychiatric hospital, a mental-health-crisis-turned-exorcism, and in a poem called “god,” a closed-casket…

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