Awards & Prizes

Courtney Bush Wins 2022 National Poetry Series

Milkweed Staff — 09/28/2022

 

We are thrilled to announce that Courtney Bush has been named one of five winners of the 2022 National Poetry Series. Her manuscript I Love Information was selected by poet Brian Teare and will be published here at Milkweed Editions in August 2023. In addition to publication, Bush will receive $10,000.

Courtney Bush is a poet and filmmaker from the Mississippi Gulf Coast. She is the author of the chapbook Isn’t This Nice? (blush_lit, 2019), and the full-length poetry collection Every Book Is About The Same Thing (Newest York Arts Press, 2022). Her films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, have been…

Courtney Bush

Courtney Bush is the author of I Love Information and Every Book Is about the Same Thing. Her films, made with collaborators Jake Goicoechea and Will Carington, have been screened at festivals internationally. She lives and works as a nanny in New York.

Brooklyn Park, MN —

In Person: Michael Kleber-Diggs in conversation with Kiese Laymon for the Minnesota State Write Like Us Series

Minnesota State Write Like Us is proud to present best-selling author, essayist, and social critic Kiese Laymon for a free public reading and interview at North Hennepin Community College on Thursday, September 29 at 6:30 pm. Laymon will read from his creative work, followed by an interview by award-winning author Michael Kleber-Diggs.

If you are unable to attend in-person, it will also be available for online live-streaming. Register here for the live-stream access: https://tinyurl.com/KieseLaymonWebinar2022.

Brooklyn Heights, NY —

In Person: Ama Codjoe appearing at Brooklyn Poets in partnership with Books are Magic and featuring Aracelis Girmay, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Michelle Whittaker, & Jenny Xie

Join Books are Magic at Brooklyn Poets for a night of poetry and friendship as Ama Codjoe presents Bluest Nude with Aracelis Girmay, Zakia Henderson-Brown, Patrick Rosal, Nicole Sealey, Lyrae Van-Clief Stefanon, Michelle Whittaker, & Jenny Xi.

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