Please join editor Erin Sharkey and contributors Bino, Michael Kleber-Diggs, and katie robinson in collaboration with Free Black Dirt, Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, and We Are All Criminals for a very special event!
Books will be sold from Moon Palace Books.
Join Juliet Patterson for a reading from her latest memoir, Sinkhole.
Join Juliet Patterson and Micheal Kleber-Diggs for a reading for the launch for The Minds on Fire Poetry series.
Join Claire Wahmanholm for a reading from her latest collection, Meltwater as she takes part of The Art Shanty Project’s Climate Walk on Ice.
This is an interactive event with many ways for participants to join in:
Gather on shore beginning at 1 pm.
Participate in the way that fits best for you:
1. Bring a sign. Home made or purchased from a climate activism group.
2. Hit the runway with the Fashion Disasters! Dress as a climate catastrophe in a costume of your own creation or buy something online.
3. Walk the Ice with other activists to show your concern for our environment.
4. Take great…
Erin Sharkey, Naima Penniman, J. Wortham and Alexis Pauline Gumbs will discuss their relationships to ancestry, the archive and to healing with and through their relationships to land and the natural world.
The anthology where their work appears, A Darker Wilderness, is a constellation of luminary writers reflecting on the significance of nature in their lived experience and on the role of nature in the lives of Black folks in the United States. Each of the essays included engages with a single archival object, whether directly or obliquely, exploring stories spanning hundreds of years and…
Come for the poetry, stay for the biscuits! Start the New Year with an extravaganza of five poets. This evening will feature readings from Toby Altman, Tarik Dobbs, Rachel Galvin, Chad Morgan, and Juliet Patterson.
Highlighting Washburn University’s Spring 2023 WUmester theme of Health and Healing, Juliet will discuss how writing about her family’s history allowed her to explore and reflect on grief.
Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest who’s presented work at literary, art, and public spaces in the US, Canada, and abroad with support from the Banff Centre, Joyce Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and others. He has degrees from The New School for Social Research and University of Toronto and was Program Director for the Arab American lit and film organization Mizna before receiving a multi-year Tulsa Artist Fellowship and most recently a Milkweed Editions fellowship. His debut poetry collection HOMES (Coffee House Press, 2021), about nature, modernity, identity, belonging, and sublimity through the site…
Madi McLaughlin is the Advancement Manager. Prior to joining our Advancement team, Madi was Milkweed’s Engagement Coordinator, supporting data management and warehouse operations, events, and communications across the operations.
Prior to joining our team in January of 2023, she worked as a Street Outreach Navigator and Program Manager where she served our houseless neighbors in Minneapolis and St Paul. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, she holds a BS in Organizational Communications with a Minor in Sustainability from the University of Portland.
She is an elevator conversationalist and a lover of art in all its forms — a poet, a potter…
Last month, The Green Room arts and ecology series returned to Oʻahu with U.S. Poet Laureate and Merwin Conservancy poet-in-residence Ada Limón. Hosted at the historic Washington Place, the former home of Hawaiʻi’s last reigning monarch Queen Liliʻuokalani, this special event featured a welcome reading from the newly appointed Hawai’i State Poet Laureate, Brandy Nālani Mc Dougall.
This historic event was captured on video and we hope you will join for a virtual broadcast of this very special Green Room.
The event is free, and donations are welcome at the virtual “door” to support this public…
