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Charif Shanahan : Trace Evidence

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/01/2023
… latest collection, Trace Evidence , we encounter the lines: “I want to ​tell you what for me it has been like. … son’s very different one, and the ways different legacies of race—historically, geopolitically—can ripple through the … a reading of a long excerpt from what will be his next book, a polyvocal, epistolary project called Dear Whiteness. …
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The inspiring reemergence of Debra Magpie Earling

Milkweed Staff
… The inspiring reemergence of Debra Magpie Earling Authors Books often come to us at … Salish author Debra Magpie Earling’s work is no exception. The Missoula, Montana-based writer was highly referred to our … a fellow Missoulian author who had already published a book with us. Slager was intrigued to learn that Earling had …
Awards & Prizes

Hajjar Baban wins 2025 National Poetry Series

Milkweed Staff
… thrilled to announce that Hajjar Baban has been named one of five winners of the 2025 National Poetry Series . Her manuscript LOW FLYING … Collective. LOW FLYING PLANES is her first full-length book of poems. Judge Jake Skeets, author of Horses and Eyes … that Hajjar Baban has been named one of  five winners of the 2025 National Poetry Series . Her manuscript  LOW FLYING …
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Fiction

Alexis Smith : Glaciers

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 11/15/2012
… a day in her life, in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former soldier who fixes her computer, and dreams of the … a day in her life, in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited love for the former …
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Hybrid / Nonfiction / Poetry

Rachel Zucker : SoundMachine

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/24/2020
… human and uncompromisingly analytic. . . . Above all, this book is open—open about difficult subjects, open in the way its language operates, open in its willingness to … Today’s guest is poet Rachel Zucker.  A graduate of Yale in Psychology and Child Development, and of the Iowa …
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Fiction / Nonfiction

Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 09/24/2024
… Isabella Hammad : Recognizing the Stranger : On Palestine and Narrative Submitted by … on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her book is the speech she delivered for the Edward Said Memorial … with Isabella Hammad is truly like no other on the show in its fourteen year history. The main text of her …
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Between the Covers Live / Poetry

Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 02/11/2026
… Milkweed Live : Canisia Lubrin : The World After Rain Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … latest poetry collection The World After Rain.  A private book, that Canisia never intended to publish, we explore what … formally and aesthetically, to water? What is the utility of poetry, its effect in the world? How can autobiography be …
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Danielle Dutton : Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 04/20/2024
… One might ask, just what is Danielle Dutton’s latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other? A collection of stories, a philosophical essay, a sequence of nested … a one-act play of silent animals, a meditation on the human in the more-than-human world, on the end of the …
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Ayad Akhtar : Homeland Elegies

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 11/01/2020
… Naimon, Milkweed Editions “An urgent, intimate hybrid of memoir and fiction, Homeland Elegies lays bare the broken heart of our American dream turned reality TV nightmare. The book . . . brilliantly captures how we got to this exact … hybrid of memoir and fiction, Homeland Elegies lays bare the broken heart of our American dream turned reality TV …