Fayetteville, AR —

Open Mouth Poetry Festival, ft. Benjamin Garcia

The annual Open Mouth Reading Series Poetry Festival is going virtual! Tune in on Saturday, October 31st at 7:00pm CDT for readings by Festival features Benjamin Garcia (author of Thrown in the Throat), Meg Day, Jihyun Yun, Callista Buchen and Leila Chatti, with an opening mini-feature by Rome Hernández Morgan. Register here.

Clarendon Hills, IL —

GLIBA + ArtBar Host "The Lit Show," ft. Benjamin Garcia

Tune in to The Lit Show: Chapter 3! On Friday, November 6, ArtBar and GLIBA are co-hosting a literary themed art show with live author and artist presentations. ArtBar artists have been paired with authors to create unique pieces of art based on the author’s work. Artists will present their pieces live. The live event will be streamed on Facebook at 7PM CDT.

Oxford, MS —

Mississippi Writers on Mississippi Politics: Aimee Nezhukumatathil with Brittany Brown

Throughout the month of October, Mississippi Today will be hosting some of Mississippi’s most celebrated authors in conversation with Mississippi Today editors and journalists. On October 27th, author Aimee Nezhukumatathil will be in conversation with Brittany Brown, the inaugural Mississippi Today Emerging Reporters Fellow. Register here!

St. Paul, MN —

Subtext Books Hosts William Souder in Conversation with Daniel Slager

SubText Books is pleased to present a virtual event with William Souder to celebrate the release of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck on Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 PM. Souder will be in conversation with Daniel Slager, Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register here.

Champaign, IL —

Ninth Letter Reading, ft. Kathy Fagan, Jodee Stanley, & Jessica Tanck

Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Join Ninth Letter editor Jodee Stanley, alumna Jessica Tanck, and poet Kathy Fagan for an immersive virtual event featuring a poetry reading and a discussion. Register here.

Authors / News / Awards & Prizes

Michael Kleber-Diggs Wins 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Milkweed Staff — 10/16/2020

We are thrilled to announce that Michael Kleber-Diggs is the winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. His manuscript Worldly Things was selected by judge Henri Cole and will be published in June 2021. In addition to publication, Kleber-Diggs will receive $10,000.

Michael Kleber-Diggs was born and raised in Kansas and now lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in Lit Hub, the Rumpus, Rain Taxi, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Water~Stone Review, Midway Review, North Dakota Quarterly and a few anthologies. Kleber-Diggs teaches poetry and creative non-fiction through the Minnesota Prison Writers Workshop. Worldly Things