Milkweed Editions Land Acknowledgment

Founded as a nonprofit organization in 1980, Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher. Our mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it.

We are based in Bde Óta Othúŋwe (Minneapolis) in Mní Sota Makhóčhe (Minnesota), the traditional homeland of the Dakhóta and Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people and current home to many thousands of Dakhóta, Ojibwe, and other Indigenous people, including four federally recognized Dakhóta nations and seven federally recognized Ojibwe nations.

Authors / What Matters Most / News / Interviews

Surrender to the current; on writing to survive grief, finding comfort in one’s hybridity, and resisting the urge to write like Rimbaud

Milkweed Staff — 03/15/2023

Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.

In the following interview, the famously personable hybrid-author made a stop in to the Milkweed Editions offices in Minneapolis, MN in the midst of touring for his new book, which has just been named a finalist…

News / Events

On View: Waking Worlds, a museum exhibition featuring World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura

Milkweed Staff — 03/10/2023

 

On the evening of January 27th, 2023, a few members of the Milkweed team ventured two hours south to the city of Winona, in the “bluff country” of Minnesota. As the sun began to set across the snowy expanse, we traded views of sparkling white fields for road-passes winding through hills and chasing the Mississippi River. Long before we arrived at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s Waking Worlds exhibition preview party, I’d begun to ponder what world we had left behind, and what new one awaited. I’d been hoping for an experience immersive enough to stop time if…

Minneapolis, MN —

In Person: Claire Wahmanholm and Chaun Webster at Milkweed Books

Join us for a special event with poets Claire Wahmanholm and Chaun Webster as they read and discuss their new books Meltwater and Wail Song. Along with this event’s reading and conversation between the authors, there will be time for audience questions and book signing.

Please join us at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the first floor of Open Book, at 7 pm for an evening of transformative poetry!

 

About the speakers:

Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the Society of…

New York,, NY —

In Person: Chris Dombrowski appearing at CCNY Chai & Chat Reading Series

On Tuesday, February 28, author Chris Dombrowski will read from his latest book The River You Touch as part of the CCNY MFA in Creative Writing’s Chai & Chat reading series. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Michelle Valladares, director of the MFA, followed by a Q&A and book signing with the author. Dombrowski’s book will be available for purchase at a discounted price for those who attend.

Los Angeles, CA —

In Person: K. Iver Appearing at Skylight Books

Join K. Iver at Skylight Books!

Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco sees us through a particular kind of grief—one so relentless, it’s precious. It presses us, also, to continue advocating for a world in which queer love fantasies become reality and queer love poems “swaddle the impossible / contours of joy.”

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