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…

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.

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.

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.”

A gathering and celebration of Milkweed authors and readers featuring an exclusive reading from 5 of our recently published poets (Ama Codjoe, Kathy Fagan, K. Iver, Sara Eliza Johnson, Elizabeth Metzger, and Claire Wahmanholm) accessible through a QR code at the event. The poets have also contributed a “book artifact”—an object, playlist, piece of memorabilia that is connected to their collection—available to win through a raffle along with other Milkweed swag during the event. Bring a friend and help us toast our amazing authors and readers. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

Join Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe at the Northern Arizona Book Festival in kinłání (aka flagstaff, AZ).

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.