Minneapolis, MN —
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In person: Aimee Nezhukumatathil appearing at Wonderfair

Join The Blake School and Milkweed Editions for this family-oriented event for all ages to explore wonders of nature. Featuring a conversation with New York Times bestselling World of Wonders author Aimee Nezhukumatathil and award-winning Brains On science podcast host Molly Bloom, along with orchids, turtles, plants, ice cream sundaes and more. View the original artwork by Fumi Mini Nakamura that illustrates World of Wonders and get inspired to make your own. Drop in, engage, and experience wonder together.

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Virtual: Fady Joudah appearing at Arab American National Museum

Join our monthly the Arab American National Museum’s series “Words for Palestine” which aims to center and highlight Palestinian voices during this devastating time. This March they welcome Palestinian American poet Fady Joudah’s as he launches his urgent and essential sixth collection of poems titled, […].

[…] was written during the current daily erasure of Palestinians and insists on presence inside and outside the ancestral land. The event will be moderated by Palestinian American poet George Abraham.

“Words For Palestine” is co-sponsored by RAWI, Mizna and Palestine Writes, and is free with…

Sarah V. Schweig

Sarah V. Schweig’s first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016.

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Houston, TX —

In Person: Fady Joudah appearing at Rice University

Join Students for Justice in Palestine at Rice University, Rice Asian Diasporic and Asian American Research Collective, and Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Houston for the release of Fady Joudah’s book, […].

Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.

Awards & Prizes

Sarah V. Schweig Wins the Eighth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff — 02/23/2024

 

Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Cynthia Cruz has chosen Sarah V. Schweig’s collection of poems, The Ocean in the Next Room, as the winner of the 2023–24 Jake Adam York Prize. The Ocean in the Next Room will be published by Milkweed Editions in January 2025, and Schweig will receive $2,000.

Sarah V. Schweig’s first book, Take Nothing with You, was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2016. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Granta, Tin House, and the Yale Review, among others, and her critical essays have…