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Devon Walker-Figueroa Wins 2020 National Poetry Series

Milkweed Staff
… to announce that Devon Walker-Figueroa has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2020. Her manuscript Philomath … eats locusts and every daughter is blonde. If one of the book’s motives is ’Find[ing] a way out of this valley named … Walker-Figueroa has been named one of five winners of the National Poetry Series for 2020. Her manuscript Philomath …

Daniel Slager

… Daniel Slager Daniel Slager is the Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining Milkweed as … appearance in print in the United States. His most recent book-length translation was Auguste Rodin by Rainer Maria … Daniel Slager is the Publisher and CEO of Milkweed Editions. Prior to joining …
Authors / Watch & Listen

Remembering Max Ritvo

… up to our booth during Justin Boening ’s first-ever book signing (“Justin Boening, sign my chest! ” he yelled, shouldering his way through the crowd), and then more officially one Friday in May 2016, when we received the manuscript of Four Reincarnations . We acquired the book just three days …

Sean Hill

… Sean Hill Sean Hill is the author of Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one … Sean Hill is the author of  Dangerous Goods , a Minnesota Book Award-winner, and  Blood Ties & Brown Liquor , named one …
Authors / What Matters Most / Watch & Listen

What Matters Most | Ep. 4 Beth Dooley

Milkweed Staff
… What Matters Most / Watch & Listen Video URL Note: To view the closed captions, click the YouTube logo in the bottom … can follow along by subscribing here ! A joyful snippet of their conversation makes it into this week’s episode of … and Breaking Bread in the Northern Heartland , a Minnesota Book Award finalist. We are increasingly a publisher of both …
Nonfiction

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/01/2025
… Leanne Betasamosake Simpson : Theory of Water Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, … Leanne Betasamosake Simpson takes us not only outside the academy, and away from our screens, but outside and into … this year, you may remember me mentioning to him the book of today’s guest, and how it is a touchstone book for me …
Fiction / Nonfiction / Poetry / SF/F

Elaine Castillo : How to Read Now

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 09/18/2022
… Castillo, arguing that we are all overeducated in a set of fundamentally terrible reading techniques, ones that … impoverish us as readers and thinkers, ones that diminish the availability of meaning and meaningfulness in our lives. … Ledgerwood talks with writers she loves about modern life book culture and all the ways sharing stories illuminates our …
Authors / What Matters Most

Jos Charles' a Year & other poems is a door left open to form, fire, and fate

Milkweed Staff
… open to form, fire, and fate Authors / What Matters Most The year is 2021, and wildfires are ravaging the West Coast. … Enter the poet Jos Charles, whose seminal collection of poems, feeld , was named a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and … Every fragment is a month, and each month spills into the book-length poem that captures a year unlike any other. …
Bookstore / Roundup

Read This Next: Celia Recommends (April)

… juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a girl who finds an (imaginary?) friend … juvenile—its horizontal, free flowing drawings mimic the illustrations of a children’s book, and the tale of a …
Roundup

#ireadindie: International Women's Day

… International Women's Day Roundup We’re proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that … and happily rise to the occasion. This inspirational gift book encourages girls and women to seize the day, be kind to … We're proud to be part of the independent publishing community, promoting titles that …