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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 . …

Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

Bill McKibben

… author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature , the first book for a common audience about global warming. He is a … author, environmentalist, and activist. In 1988 he wrote The End of Nature , the first book for a common audience …

Su Hwang

… Su Hwang Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega , which received the 2020 Minnesota Book Award in poetry and was named a finalist for the 2021 … Su Hwang is a poet, activist, stargazer, and the author of Bodega , which received the 2020 Minnesota …

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: January

Milkweed Staff

… January Bookstore / Roundup Our January picks blur the line between real and unreal, guide us through grief, and push us to consider the moral implications of participating in established systems of power. Read these … and letting what will burn do precisely that. PS : This book comes doubly recommended, because fellow Milkweed …

Bookstore

Bookseller Recommendations

Craig Cliff

… Craig Cliff Craig Cliff is the author of The Mannequin Makers , a novel, and A Man Melting , a … won the 2011 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. Both were previously published in New Zealand. In 2012 … Craig Cliff is the author of The Mannequin Makers , a novel, and A Man …

Podcast

Between the Covers

Fiction / Hybrid

Lidia Yuknavitch : Verge

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 07/20/2020

… David Naimon, Milkweed Editions “ Verge is a bouquet of dynamite: explosive, deadly, and spectacularly beautiful. … through survival, beauty through brokenness, joy by fire. The women who occupy them are my favorite kinds of heroines: … we share the same city. Then I imagined to talk about this book which is about, among other things, bodies and …

Bookstore / Roundup

Read This Next: June Subscription Pick

… Read This Next: June Subscription Pick Bookstore / Roundup The next Milkweed Books Subscription pick is here! It’s the first book of nonfiction we’re sending to our subscribers—when I ran … The next Milkweed Books Subscription pick is here! It's the first book of nonfiction we're sending to our subscribers—when I …

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Architecture, Texture, and Grace: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff

… with Ama Codjoe this week about her extraordinary first book, Bluest Nude , which is due out in September 2022. Mary … Speaker: Bluest Nude is a powerful, vulnerable collection of poems that explores the practice of seeing and being seen as well as the ways we …

Poetry

Author Interviews

Marilyn Hacker

… Marilyn Hacker Marilyn Hacker is the author of twenty-one books of poems and twenty-two collections of … she has received numerous honors, including the National Book Award, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, the PEN … Marilyn Hacker is the author of twenty-one books of poems and twenty-two …

Jos Charles

… Jos Charles Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld , a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series, … Jos Charles is the author of a Year & other poems and feeld , a finalist for …