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.
In honor of Poetry Month, join to celebrate the publication of Bluest Nude by poet Ama Codjoe in conversation with poet and professor Yona Harvey. Ama Codjoe’s highly anticipated debut collection brings generous light to the inner dialogues of women as they bathe, create art, make and lose love. Each poem rises with the urgency of a fully awakened sensual life. Audience Q&A and book sales to follow.
U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón will read from her new collection The Hurting Kind, followed by an on-stage conversation with Roberto Tejada, author of the poetry collection Why the Assembly Disbanded. The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing.
Join Elizabeth Metzger for a reading and conversation to celebrate her newest collection Lying In.
A devastating, vulnerable collection tracing high-risk pregnancy and new motherhood amid grief.
“All my life all I’ve wanted was to be myself / and someone else,” writes Elizabeth Metzger. From the shadowy perspective of confinement, where the presence of death unsettles all outcomes, these poems examine an expansion and fracturing of the self—into motherhood as well as childhood, into past selves and future unknowns. The child becomes parent, the parent becomes child, the child arrives but in…
Join the Center for Justice and Law and Erin Sharkey to discuss her latest project and read her new edited copy of A Darker Wilderness.
Those with an interest in creative nonfiction writing, issues of land access, nature, racial justice, environmental justice, and history are encouraged to attend.
Join Priyanka Kumar and Milkweed Editions’ Publisher and CEO Daniel Slager for a discussion about the genesis of Kumar’s collection of essays, Conversations with Birds, followed by a reading featuring special guest birds, facilitated by the Raptor Center.
Join us at 5:30 PM at Milkweed Books, located on the first floor of Open Book for light refreshments and a chance to chat with Priyanka in the gorgeous, newly re-opened bookstore!
This event is free and open to the public, please register here
