Join Elizabeth Metzger for a reading and conversation to celebrate her newest collection Lying In.

A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.

“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self—into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in…

Join the Center for Justice and Law and Erin Sharkey to discuss her latest project and read her new edited copy of A Darker Wilderness.

Those with an interest in creative nonfiction writing, issues of land access, nature, racial justice, environmental justice, and history are encouraged to attend.

Join Priyanka Kumar and Milkweed Editions’ Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager for a discussion about the genesis of Kumar’s collection of essays, Conversations with Birds, followed by a reading featuring special guest birds, facilitated by the Raptor Center.

Join us at 5:30 PM at Milkweed Books, located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with Priyanka in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!

This event is free and open to the public, please register here

We’re thrilled to celebrate the play production of Letters from Max with a special “Milkweed Night” at Signature Theatre on Wednesday, March 1.

Event details:
6:30 Literary community social hour with Daniel Slager, Milkweed Editions Publisher and CEO (lobby bar / bookstore)
7:30 Performance (The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre)
9:00 Talkback with Sarah Ruhl (stage in the lobby), followed by book-signing (lobby bar / bookstore)

Join us for a unique opportunity to discuss the power of ritual in art both on and off the page with Sarah Ruhl. The talk back will feature readings of Max Ritvo’s…

Writer and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar joins us for a conversation about her new essay collection, Conversations with Birds.

“A bird the color of mangoes, a beachcomber with a crescent-moon bill, the owl who controls the dark side of nature: in unforgettable encounters with feathered neighbors like these, Priyanka Kumar charts the life-changing surprise and splendor that birds can bring. They open the heart. They widen the soul. For Kumar, a peripatetic filmmaker and often a stranger in a strange land, birds have revealed connection and created wholeness. How grateful I am for the chance to…

Poet and educator Chris Martin and poet Adam Wolfond join us via Zoom for a conversation and poetry reading.

In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse–a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent–Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to “extend the choreography.”

“Adam Wolfond’s astonishing work maps and annotates the interior spaces in lyric intensity. In poems that glide, posit, and sing, we hear how the body, attuned to ‘the trees … languaging,’ constructs art. It is here where we are taught to understand multiple knowledges and registers in the choir of what…

“Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.”

Priyanka Kumar is the author of Conversations with Birds. Her essays and criticism appear in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Huffington Post, and High Country News.

Scott Russell Sanders is the author of more than twenty books of fiction, essays, and personal narrative, including A Private History of Awe, Hunting for Hope, and The Way of Imagination. His latest book is Small Marvels: A Novel-in-Stories.

Alternating Currents Live presents Lia Kohl and Elizabeth Metzger for solo and duo sets of poetry and music.

Registration is required for in-person event attendance. Gallery attendance is limited to 20 audience members.  Each attendee must register individually. To receive your member discount with your ticket purchase, please give Woodland Pattern a call.