Born in 1962, the Mexican poet María Baranda is a winner of major literary awards in Mexico, the Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize and the Efrain Huerta National Poetry Prize, as well as Spain’s Francisco de Quevedo Prize for Ibero-American Poetry.
Join Kazim Ali and Danielle Geller in conversation at Elliott Bay Book Company. This event will be held virtually. More details here!
Join Margaret Renkl for a discussion and reading at Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Renkl will be in conversation with Alex Brubaker. More details here!
The University of Minnesota Creative Writing Program celebrates two of our MFA students, Zi Ning Mok (The Orchid Folios) and torrin a. greathouse (Wound From The Mouth Of A Wound) who have recently published books. More details here!
Join Debut Revue for a reading with four incredible poets, including torrin a. greathouse (Wound from the Mouth of a Wound). torrin will be joined by Destiny O. Birdsong, Lukas Ray Hall, and Taylor Johnson. Tune in on YouTube at 7pm ET!
Join Brazos Bookstore for a virtual poetry reading with Wayne Miller & Fady Joudah, celebrating their new collections We the Jury and Tethered to Stars. This event will be held on Zoom at 7pm CT. Register here!
Join the UNC Department of English & Comparative Literature for a poetry reading with Dan Beachy-Quick (Stone-Garland) and Kylan Rice (Incryptions). This event will be held on Zoom at 4pm ET. Register here!
Join Milkweed poets Rick Barot, Ada Limón and Jake Skeets for a reading and conversation about poetry. More details here!
Educators from two graduate programs with publishing components engage in a conversation with publishing professionals from two of the nation’s most distinguished independent presses including (Milkweed Edition’s Marketing Director Joanna (Yanna) R. Demkiewicz), on just what publishing programs can offer to folks aspiring to work in the literary publishing industry. More details here!
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2020–21 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE!
Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Randall Mann has chosen Brian Tierney’s book Rise and Float as the winner of the 2020–21 Jake Adam York Prize. Rise and Float will be published by Milkweed Editions in February, 2022, and Tierney will receive $2,000.
Brian Tierney’s poetry appears in Agni, Boston Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, and a graduate of the Bennington College MFA Writing…
