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Many Maxes: Performance as Legacy and an Invitation for You

Milkweed Staff — 08/19/2021

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

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

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.