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Kazim Ali

… Kazim Ali Kazim Ali is the author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water , as … of poetry include Sky Ward , winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and The Far Mosque , winner of Alice … Kazim Ali is the author of Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of …

Jake Skeets

… Jake Skeets Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers , selected by … winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and an American Book Award. A Whiting Award recipient, Skeets is from the … Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers , …

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Bookseller Recommendations: January

… have blurbs that need to be submitted, it seems like the next round of staff picks looms just around the corner. All of it rolls … the globe who have something particular in common. This book touches on the importance of spirituality, practice, and … have blurbs that need to be submitted, it seems like the next round of staff picks looms just around the …

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Mesha Maren

Sugar Run

Ask Baba Yaga

Taisia Kitaiskaia

Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun

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Read This Next: Daley Recommends (April)

… Daley Recommends (April) Bookstore / Roundup Like all of us at Milkweed Books , I like to read across genres, but I … cross-genre, and particularly those that mess up the lines delineating what is and isn’t fiction. The … More importantly for you, though, it’s a playful, brainy book about artmaking and intimacy. It follows autofictional …

William Souder

… William Souder is an award-winning journalist and is the author of three books: Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the … Carson’s Silent Spring and was a New Yorek Times notable book of 2012. He lives in Grant, Minnesota. Social Links X … William Souder is an award-winning journalist and is the author of three books: Under a Wild Sky: John James …

Michael Garriga

… Michael Garriga Machael Garriga comes from a long line of Creole outlaws and storytellers. He has worked as a shrimp picker, a bartender, and a soundman in a blues bar. The Book of Duels is his first collection of fiction, but his … picker, a bartender, and a soundman in a blues bar. The Book of Duels is his first collection of fiction, but …

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Bookseller Recommendations: February

Milkweed Staff

… February Bookstore / Roundup It’s almost eerie how much the books in this roundup overlap thematically, despite varying widely in genre. In some way, each of these books questions time, whether it be personal … singular” splashed across the jackets. This book is, indeed, all three of the aforementioned descriptors. …

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Authors

Ready to Take Flight: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff

… Authors by Kerri ní Dochartaigh When someone writes a book about anything the first thing they are often asked is: HOW ? How did you find the time, the topic, the means to get it out of your insides and into the outside world for all to see? … ní Dochartaigh When someone writes a book about anything the first thing they are often asked is: HOW? How did you …

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Patricia Kirkpatrick

… Patricia Kirkpatrick Patricia Kirkpatrick is the author of Blood Moon as well as Odessa , which was awarded the first … Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and the 2013 Minnesota Book Award. She also has published Century’s Road , poetry … Patricia Kirkpatrick is the author of Blood Moon as well as Odessa , which was …

Awards & Prizes

Ryann Stevenson Wins 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Milkweed Staff

… We are thrilled to announce that Ryann Stevenson is the winner of the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize . Her manuscript Human … of the present is captured brilliantly by this wary, lucid book. We live in an era when our humanness is worn down—by … We are thrilled to announce that Ryann Stevenson is the winner of the 2021 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize . …

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