Minneapolis, MN —

Virtual: Priyanka Kumar appearing at North Carolina chapter of the Wildlife Federation


In a time of climate crisis, can we think of birds in isolation without considering their ecosystems—the web of plant and animal communities they depend on?

This event with acclaimed author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar delves into what the burrowing owl and the long-billed curlew can teach us about habitat restoration–key themes in her new book Conversations with Birds.

Sean Beckford

Sean Beckford is an associate editor at Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining the press in 2022, he was an editor for the Beloit Fiction Journal and an editorial and publicity intern for Milkweed Editions in 2018. He attended Beloit College and earned a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing in Beloit, WI. He is the winner of the 2018 Academy of American Poets Prize.

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Minneapolis, MN —

Virtual Launch: 2022 Ballard Spahr winner K. Iver in conversation with Tyehimba Jess

We are pleased to present a conversation between 2022 Ballard Spahr winner K. Iver and prize judge Tyehimba Jess virtually in celebration of K. Iver’s debut collection, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco.

Join us virtually via Zoom at 6:00 PM CST. Registration is free but required. Closed captioning and ASL interpretation will be available.

Pre-order your copy of Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco here: https://milkweed.org/book/short-film-starring-my-beloveds-red-bronco

K. Iver is a nonbinary trans poet born in Mississippi. Their work has appeared in Boston Review, Gulf…

Zoey Gulden

Zoey Gulden manages the brick-and-mortar store, Milkweed Books, which includes book buying for the inventory and curating the event calendar. She also manages Milkweed’s direct sales operation and warehouse. She finished her MFA Creative Writing thesis for Hamline University in May of 2023 where she served as the Managing Editor for Saint Paul Almanac and Associate Editor in Nonfiction for Water-Stone Review. When she isn’t editing books or freelance proofreading them, you can find her drinking coffee at Colossal Cafe in Saint Paul and obsessively reading memoirs.

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Jackson Holbert

Jackson Holbert is the author of Winter Stranger. He was born and raised in eastern Washington. His poems have appeared in Narrative, The Nation, and Poetry. He received an MFA in Poetry from the Michener Center for Writers.

Winona, MN —
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On view through January 7, 2024: Waking Worlds: Wondrous Reads for Curious Minds

Open now through January 2024, The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) debuted its new literary arts gallery, the Steven and Barbara Slaggie Family Gallery, by producing a 2,300 square foot exhibition that taps into the ageless beauty of wonder, presenting three lauded and celebrated books turned exhibition experiences that run concurrently with the Museum’s Flora & Fauna season—a suite of exhibitions and public programs that explore the plants and animals of our mysterious and brilliant world.

The exhibition features original illustrations from three book projects; Mary Casanova’s Wake Up…

New York, NY —
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World Premiere: Letters From Max at Signature Theatre

MacArthur Fellow Sarah Ruhl begins her Spotlight Residency with the world premiere adaptation of her 2018 epistolary book, Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, and a Friendship, “a resonant and profound contribution from two fully formed artists to the literature of illness”(Slate). Ruhl, whose accomplished body of work includes Eurydice and Pulitzer Prize finalists In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) and The Clean House, here shares letters and poems passed between herself and her former student Max Ritvo, as he candidly discusses terminal illness and tests poetry’s capacity to put to…

Duluth, MN —

In Person: Michael Bazzett appearing at The College of St. Scholastica

Celebrating literature and language as an antidote to the troubled world in which we live, the 2023 Rose Warner Reading Series inspires students to explore the creative literary arts on the welcoming Duluth campus of The College of St. Scholastica. All you need to do is show up. We’ll do the rest.

CSS’s English Department looks forward to sharing time with the nation’s engaged citizens of tomorrow, accompanied by you, the teachers of today. Please note, for teachers attending and participating in sessions organized specifically for you, CSS will provide Continuing Education Unit certificates…

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