Philadelphia, PA —
Milkweed at AWP: World of Wonders Gala with Aimee Nezhukumatathil and January Gill O'Neil
Join AWP and Milkweed Editions for a celebratory, socially-distanced happy hour, theatre-style conversation, and book signing featuring a silent auction, pop-up art table, and book sale curated by Milkweed Editions. Learn more!
Philadelphia, PA —
Milkweed at AWP: Landscape and Literary Culture with Kazim Ali, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, & Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Moderated by Elena Passarello
In this AWP featured event, Milkweed authors discuss the intersections of literary culture and the natural world: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders; Kazim Ali, author of Northern Light; and Kerri ní Dochartaigh, author of Thin Places. Moderated by Animals Strike Curious Poses author Elena Passarello. This event will also be livestreamed. Learn more!
Awards & Prizes
Christopher Brean Murray Wins the Sixth Annual Jake Adam York Prize
ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE 2021–22 JAKE ADAM YORK PRIZE!
Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions are thrilled to announce that judge Dana Levin has chosen Christopher Brean Murray’s book Black Observatory as the winner of the 2021–22 Jake Adam York Prize. Black Observatory will be published by Milkweed Editions in February, 2023, and Murray will receive $2,000.
Christopher Brean Murray’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bennington Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New Ohio Review, Quarterly West, Washington Square Review, and other journals. He lives in Houston.
Christopher Brean Murray
Christopher Brean Murray is the author of Black Observatory, winner of the 2022 Jake Adam York Prize. He has received awards from the Academy of American Poets and Inprint Houston, and he served as online poetry editor of Gulf Coast.
Authors / Interviews
Architecture, Texture, and Grace: A Cover Image Story
Hello Milkweed readers! I’m Mary Austin Speaker, Milkweed’s Creative Director, and I was honored to talk with Ama Codjoe this week about her extraordinary first book, Bluest Nude, which is due out in September 2022.
Mary Austin Speaker: Bluest Nude is a powerful, vulnerable collection of poems that explores the practice of seeing and being seen as well as the ways we move through intimacy, memory, and art. Can you describe some of the central experiences that inspired Bluest Nude?
Ama Codjoe: In 2019, I attended the art exhibit, Posing Modernity: the Black Model from Manet…
Paris, —
Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore
Join Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr at The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore in Paris for a reading from and conversation about their collaborative poetry collection, A Different Distance.
Ama Codjoe
Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude. She is also the author of Blood of the Air, winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. Her honors include a 2017 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, and a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Codjoe’s work has twice appeared in The Best American Poetry. She lives in New York City.
Harrisburg, PA —
Brian Tierney, Aria Aber, & Ari Banias, hosted by Midtown Scholar Bookstore
The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is pleased to welcome poets Brian Tirney, Aria Aber, and Ari Banias for a live-stream reading and discussion on their new collections. This event is free and open to the public (signed copies of Rise and Float are available for sale through Midtown Scholar). Register here!