New York, NY —
Hybrid: Ama Codjoe appearing at 92NY Center for Culture & Arts featuring Carl Phillips
Join for readings by Ama Codjoe and Carl Phillips, two powerfully original voices in American poetry as they read from their new books — vital poems that find revelation in the intersections between language, history, and desire.
Authors / What Matters Most / News / Interviews
Surrender to the current; on writing to survive grief, finding comfort in one’s hybridity, and resisting the urge to write like Rimbaud
Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water. He is also the author of Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World’s Most Elusive Fish, and of three acclaimed collections of poems. Currently the Assistant Director of the Creative Writing program at the University of Montana, he lives with his family in Missoula.
In the following interview, the famously personable hybrid-author made a stop in to the Milkweed Editions offices in Minneapolis, MN in the midst of touring for his new book, which has just been named a finalist…
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Erin Sharkey appearing at Magers & Quinn Booksellers featuring Katie Holten
Join Erin Sharkey to discuss The Language of Trees and A Darker Wilderness with Katie Holten.
News / Events
On View: Waking Worlds, a museum exhibition featuring World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, illustrated by Fumi Nakamura
On the evening of January 27th, 2023, a few members of the Milkweed team ventured two hours south to the city of Winona, in the “bluff country” of Minnesota. As the sun began to set across the snowy expanse, we traded views of sparkling white fields for road-passes winding through hills and chasing the Mississippi River. Long before we arrived at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum’s Waking Worlds exhibition preview party, I’d begun to ponder what world we had left behind, and what new one awaited. I’d been hoping for an experience immersive enough to stop time if…
Minneapolis, MN —
In Person: Claire Wahmanholm and Chaun Webster at Milkweed Books
Join us for a special event with poets Claire Wahmanholm and Chaun Webster as they read and discuss their new books Meltwater and Wail Song. Along with this event’s reading and conversation between the authors, there will be time for audience questions and book signing.
Please join us at Milkweed Books, our brick-and-mortar independent bookstore located on the first floor of Open Book, at 7 pm for an evening of transformative poetry!
About the speakers:
Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Meltwater, Redmouth, and Wilder, which won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the Society of…
Missoula, MT —
In Person Book Launch: Debra Magpie Earling appearing at Missoula Art Museum featuring Peter Koch
Join Debra Magpie Earling for a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of The Lost Journals of Sacajewea. Earling will be joined in conversation by Peter Koch. Refreshments will be served and books will be sold through Fact & Fiction Books.
New York,, NY —
In Person: Chris Dombrowski appearing at CCNY Chai & Chat Reading Series
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.
Los Angeles, CA —
In Person: K. Iver Appearing at Skylight Books
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.”
Yalie Saweda Kamara
Yalie Saweda Kamara is the author of Besaydoo, winner of the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize. She is a Sierra Leonean American writer, educator, and researcher from Oakland, California and the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate.