Join Rick Barot and Jerico Lenk for a reading at Pacific Lutheran University, as part of The Visiting Writer Series, sponsored by the English Department and the College of Liberal Studies. More information on the event can be found here.
Join Milkweed Books and special guests, Sarah Ghazal Ali, Ryan Vine, and Michael Bazzett, as we launch and celebrate Matthew Nienow’s newest collection of poetry, If Nothing, out with Alice James Books in January.
ABOUT THE BOOK
If Nothing confronts addiction, the learned behaviors and expectations of masculinity, fatherhood, and the feelings of guilt and shame, attempting to understand them better and in doing so, find redemption and forgiveness. The poems often call us to listen to ourselves closer and ask, how do we forgive ourselves? This is a book that wants readers to feel their feelings…
Join Rebecca Spiegel with Jordan Hamel, Josh Krigman, and Naava Guaraca at Word of Mouth for The Cusp Reading Series’s Pisces | Aries Reading. More information about The Cusp Reading Series can be found here.
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day at Milkweed Books with delightful springtime snacks and sips! We invite you to stop in, shop from our array of books and broadsides, and share in the joy and community of local independent bookstores during one of the biggest annual events in the bookselling world.
We will be offering special one-day-only promotions:
-Buy three books, get a little surprise
-Buy four books, get a big prize
-Buy 10 or more books, get a discount of a decent size
Sign up to become a Milkweed member to receive an exclusive tote bag and member discount! Learn more about Milkweed…
Join friends and colleagues of the late acclaimed poet Bill Holm as they launch their record album of Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death, a musical setting of his namesake poem composed by Minnesota native Martha Helen Schmidt.
The event will feature a screening of the Pioneer PBS documentary about the song cycle which received a 2023 Regional Emmy® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences — Upper Midwest Chapter. The evening will also include select readings from Holm’s literary oeuvre by friends and acclaimed colleagues and will conclude with a performance of…
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2024–25 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE
Milkweed Editions and Copper Nickel are thrilled to announce that judge Matthew Olzmann has chosen Bo Hee Moon’s book Birthstones in the Province of Mercy as the winner of the 2024–25 Jake Adam York Prize. Birthstones in the Province of Mercy will be published by Milkweed Editions in January, 2026, and Moon will receive $2,000.
A South Korean adoptee, Bo Hee Moon is the author of one previous book of poems, Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, which she published under another name with…
A South Korean adoptee, Bo Hee Moon is the author of one previous book of poems, Omma, Sea of Joy and Other Astrological Signs, which she published under another name with Tinderbox Editions in 2021.
Join Milkweed Books as we welcome Cameron Walker to Minneapolis! Cameron’s work revolves around the human connection the world around them. Her newest short story collection, How to Capture Carbon, out with What Books Press, navigates climate change and loss with lyrical dreaminess. She has invited scientists and writers Kim Todd & Emily Sohn to speak with her around their work.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In a dozen radiant stories, award-winning author Cameron Walker brings readers to the water’s edge, where the known world collides with magic and with the mysterious depths of the human heart. Here, a…
