Saga Boy Tour: Antonio Michael Downing at Unabridged Books, with Michael Kleber-Diggs
Please join Antonio Michael Downing at Unabridged Books on September 16th at 7:30pm (Central Time)! More details here!
Please join Antonio Michael Downing at Unabridged Books on September 16th at 7:30pm (Central Time)! More details here!
Join Antonio Michael Downing in conversation with Junauda Petrus-Nasah on September 15th at 7pm (Central Time)! More information here!
Join Antonio Michael Downing at Source Booksellers with Hanif Abdurraquib on September 14th at 6pm (Central Time)! More details here!
Join Michael Kleber-Diggs and Hadara Bar-Nadav for a conversation hosted by the Johnson County Public Library on December 7th. Register here!
Watch the Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Mary Laura Philpott, hosted by Powell’s. More details here!
Watch the Graceland, at Last Tour: Margaret Renkl in conversation with Wiley Cash, hosted by Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance on 9/16 at 6pm CT. More details here!
Essay by Elizabeth Metzger
The night we met in Dorothea Lasky’s workshop at Columbia, Max Ritvo and I shared a taxi across the park where we were both living. I had recognized Max’s genius in the classroom, but it wasn’t until the cab ride after that I learned two defining things about Max: He was a performer by nature, and he was dying. I remember having trouble reconciling my impressions of him as an ebullient, whimsical life force breaking into song, holding my eyes on his for dramatically long spells with my understanding of the cold, lucid facts of his…
Katie Hill is the Vice President, Engagement & Chief Innovation Officer at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed Editions in 2021, she worked in communications, digital strategy, and public engagement at art museums for over a decade. Katie launched her career in innovation as creator of the first Internet Cat Video Film Festival at the Walker Art Center in 2012. She then moved on to help launch the practice of audience engagement at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, where she headed the Engagement Strategy department and oversaw the marketing operation. She earned a BA in English Language and Literature from Kenyon College…
Maya Abu Al-Hayyat is the director of the Palestine Writing Workshop, an institution that seeks to encourage reading in Palestinian communities through creative writing projects and storytelling with children and teachers.
Join poets Michael Bazzett, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and Lee Colin Thomas for a reading at Content Bookstore. More details here!