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.

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.”

A gathering and celebration of Milkweed authors and readers featuring an exclusive reading from 5 of our recently published poets (Ama Codjoe, Kathy Fagan, K. Iver, Sara Eliza Johnson, Elizabeth Metzger, and Claire Wahmanholm) accessible through a QR code at the event. The poets have also contributed a “book artifact”—an object, playlist, piece of memorabilia that is connected to their collection—available to win through a raffle along with other Milkweed swag during the event. Bring a friend and help us toast our amazing authors and readers. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

Join Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe at the Northern Arizona Book Festival in kinłání (aka flagstaff, AZ).

Join K. Iver at the Louisville Conference for engaging conversation about their new book Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco, and the panel “’You don’t seem too haunted, but you haunted’: Patterning and Neuroqueer Memory”.

“I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp.”

A devastating memoir that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science, Losing Music is refreshingly vulnerable and singularly illuminating–a story that will make readers see their own lives anew.

Join Debra Magpie Earling, author of Perma Red and the long-awaited The Lost Journals of Sacajewea and Tommy Orange, author of NY Times bestseller, There There as the two read from their work, discuss Native fictions, and consider what stories need to be heard and told.

Moderated by April Ignacio of the Rez Book Club. A partnership between the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing and Changing Hands Bookstore.

Join Erin Sharkey, Cultural Producer, Writer, Arts and Abolition Organizer, and Cultural Worker based in Minneapolis on Dakota land.

Erin Sharkey will discuss, A Darker Wilderness, a collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history. Each of these essays explores stories spanning hundreds of years and thousands of miles, traveling from roots to space–finding rich Blackness everywhere.