After surviving a humpback whale crashing into his kayak, Tom Mustill turned to his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker to investigate human-whale interactions around the world. And in How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication, he examines how artificial intelligence – originally designed to translate human languages – is being used to discover and decode patterns in animal communications. After moving from northern India to North America as a teenager, author and filmmaker Priyanka Kumar became increasingly distanced from the natural world she once…

Translated from the Arabic and introduced by Fady Joudah, You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems draws on two decades of work to present the transcendent and timely US debut of Palestinian poet Maya Abu Al-Hayyat. Art. Garlic. Taxis. Sleepy soldiers at checkpoints. The smell of trash on a winter street, before “our wild rosebush, neglected / by the gate, / blooms.” Lovers who don’t return, the possibility that you yourself might not return. Making beds. Cleaning up vomit. Reading recipes. In You Can Be the Last Leaf, these are the ordinary and profound—sometimes tragic, sometimes dreamy…

Ada Limón returns to the Miami Book Fair to celebrate her new appointment as the 24th U.S. Poet Laureate and The Hurting Kind, an astonishing collection about interconnectedness between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves. What does it mean to be the hurting kind? To be sensitive not only to the world’s pain and joys, but to the meanings that bend in the scrim between the natural world and the human world? To divine the relationships between us all? To perceive ourselves in other beings – and to know that those beings are resolutely their own, that they “do not / care to be seen as…

Join special guest Ada Limón, Poet Laureate of the United States, to recognize and celebrate the inaugural Sarasota Youth Poet Laureate and program finalists for the 2022-2023 school year.

The Arts and Cultural Alliance of Sarasota County, along with partnering sponsors Bookstore1 Sarasota and The Ringling Museum, will present the very first Sarasota Youth Poet Laureate and program finalists at their inaugural awards ceremony on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 5:30 PM.

The ceremony will take place on stage of the Historic Asolo Theatre at The Ringling Museum and will include the presentation of…

Join Juliet Patterson for a reading and conversation around her memoir, Sinkhole.

Join us for an exclusive evening of holiday shopping, outside of regular store hours, at our independent bookstore, Milkweed Books. Mix and mingle with fellow supporters of Milkweed, enjoy festive drinks and snacks, and use your member discount to buy the perfect gift for everyone on your list. Donations-based gift wrapping will also be available.

Not local? Use your discount online—just be sure to order early for holiday delivery!

Learn more and join our membership program here.

Photography: Rebecca Slater, By Rebecca Studios

Join Christopher Brean Murray for a reading and conversation in celebration of his collection, Black Observatory.

Photography: Rebecca Slater, By Rebecca Studios

Join us on Small Business Saturday (Nov. 26) in the bookstore! As an independent publisher with an independent bookstore, we rely on readers’ support and we’re excited to celebrate you. Not only do we carry Milkweed Editions titles, but we also support other independent, small, and values-aligned presses in store. Learn more about the bookstore here. Thank you for stopping in to the store for all of your holiday shopping needs.

We will have sips and snacks, staff recommendations, surprise author guests, and special promotions throughout the day. We look forward to seeing you here!