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Solmaz Sharif : Customs

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 03/01/2022
… years since Solmaz Sharif’s first appearance on Between the Covers, for her National Book Award–finalist debut collection Look.  Since then, many listeners have pointed to this conversation as one of the most memorable episodes to date. Solmaz returns today …
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Báyò Akómoláfé : Selah

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 02/25/2026
… if we were to take seriously that we, as humans, aren’t the sole authors of our world, that there are other intelligences at play, … America systemically fails those who call it home. The book simultaneously documents the wrenching grief of being … if we were to take seriously that we, as humans, aren’t the sole authors of our world, that there are other …
Hybrid / Nonfiction / Poetry

Nikky Finney : Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 06/01/2020
… Nikky Finney : Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … Hotbed of Occasional Poetry is a 21st-century paean to the sterling love songs humming throughout four hundred years … I think. There's a certain pleasure in meeting them again book-to-book. I know you write about family that are both …

Victoria Chang

… Victoria Chang Victoria Chang ’s most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World , received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best … Victoria Chang ’s most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World , received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best …

Makenna Goodman

… Makenna Goodman Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame , which was named a Harvard Review  Favorite Book of 2020, a White Review Recommended Read, a Refinery29 … Makenna Goodman is the author of  The Shame , which was named a  Harvard Review  Favorite Book of 2020, a  White Review  Recommended Read, a  …

Rick Barot

… Rick Barot Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones . He was born in the Philippines, grew up … for the Lambda Literary Award and won the 2009 Grub Street Book Prize; and Chord, which was a finalist for the LA Times … Rick Barot is the author of Moving the Bones . He was born in the

Ada Limón

… Ada Limón Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate and the editor of the national bestselling anthology You Are Here: Poetry in … of poems, including The Carrying , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the PEN /Jean … Ada Limón is the twenty-fourth U.S. Poet Laureate and the editor of the

Lauret Savoy

… writer, photographer, and pilot, Lauret Savoy is a woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage. The author of Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American … of ourselves in this land. Trace won the 2016 American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. It was also a …
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Announcing three new books by Ada Limón

Milkweed Staff
… books from award-winning poet and newly appointed host for the critically acclaimed podcast The Slowdown Ada Limón . Following the critical success of Limón’s 2018 collection The Carrying , The Hurting Kind —a … read by the author will be released in tandem. The second book in the deal, Beast: An Anthology of Animal Poems , …