Queer Poetry Salon is a safe space for queer writers to share ideas & poetry while providing opportunities to mobilize for the community. This is a test lab for queer literature wherein we share new work & grow our queer community. This salon will feature readings from Patrick Johnson, torrin a. greathouse, & Derrick Austin. Details here!
Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass. Tickets available for both in-person and digital access. Details here!
Join “A Mighty Blaze” for a reading and conversation with poets Allison Adair, author of The Clearing, and Leila Chatti. 4pm ET on Facebook Live!
This Native American Heritage Month, The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation is thrilled to announce a partnership with Tippet Rise Art Center and In-Na-Po (Indigenous Nations’ Poets) to offer the digital event “Songs at the Confluence: Indigenous Poets on Place,” on Dec. 4th at 7pm ET. Curated by poets Kimberly Blaeser and Jake Skeets of In-Na-Po, the event draws inspiration from W. W. Norton’s recent collection When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. The program’s focus will be on place and its importance to Indigenous poets and their writing. Details here!
Beloved poets Tina Chang and Aimee Nezhukumatathil come together to discuss their latest books, both of which meditate on the themes of race, motherhood, and home through different lenses. Ambitious and revelatory, Chang’s Hybrida is a stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. Nezhukumatathil’s debut work of nonfiction World of Wonders is a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us. Details here!
Join Patricia Kirkpatrick for the virtual launch of her newest collection, Blood Moon, in conversation with actor Sally Wingert and poet Elena Cisneros. Details here!
Join the Miami Book Fair for a conversation between Benjamin Garcia, author of Thrown in the Throat, and Kazim Ali, the judge who selected Garcia’s manuscript for the National Poetry Series. Details here!
Hello, friends, and welcome to another edition of Deep Cuts. In this series, we dive in with some of our authors and discuss the behind-the-scenes work that goes into the composition and production of their books.
We’re all about transformative literature here at Milkweed—y’all know that—but this month we got to see a slightly different kind of transformation: Larry Watson’s Let Him Go, a novel we originally published in 2007, transformed into a Focus Features film. What sorts of changes happen between page and screen? How might an author feel seeing a character they wrote find life (literally) in an actor…
