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Poetry: A Global Enterprise

… Interviews / Awards & Prizes Weijia Pan’s debut collection of poems, Motherlands, was selected by the late Louise Glück as the winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize in 2024. Among other things, the book is a transnational exploration of personal, familial, …
Max Ritvo Poetry Prize
Poetry
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Podcast
Between the Covers
Poetry

Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 05/19/2022
… Ada Limón : The Hurting Kind Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … Today’s guest Ada Limón discusses her latest collection of poetry, The Hurting Kind, whose poems ask and explore what … director of Travel + Leisure. During this time, her first book of poetry, Lucky Wreck—which was also the name of her …
Rosa Alice Branco

Rosa Alice Branco

… Rosa Alice Branco Rosa Alice Branco is the prizewinning author of Cattle of the Lord , translated by Alexis Levitin. She is one of … Rosa Alice Branco is the prizewinning author of Cattle of the Lord , translated by Alexis Levitin. She is …

Redefining Engagement

… Milkweed Editions Redefining Engagement 2016 was one of our most successful years ever—awards, sales, reviews, and … dog-eared, note-covered copies of a poetry collection in the hands of a group of young readers that signaled one of … nonstop since Bright Dead Things was named a National Book Award finalist, reading to packed houses in New York, …
Interviews

The Last Quarter of the Moon: Translator Q&A with Bruce Humes

Milkweed Staff
… The Last Quarter of the Moon: Translator Q&A with Bruce Humes Interviews In this … Milkweed Staff: What was the first translated book you read? Bruce Humes: Perhaps Twenty Thousand Leagues … Humes about his favorite reads and bookstores, as well as the importance of reading literature in translation. Bruce …
Jon Pineda

Jon Pineda

… Jon Pineda Jon Pineda is the author of Apology , which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize in 2013. He is also … Jon Pineda is the author of Apology , which won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize in …

Tuệ Sỹ

… Tuệ Sỹ Tuệ Sỹ is the author of Dreaming the Mountain . Born in 1943 in Pakse (Laos) as Phạm Văn … Tuệ Sỹ is the author of Dreaming the Mountain . Born in 1943 in Pakse (Laos) as Phạm Văn …

BLB23

… BLB23 Thursday, October 12 2023 BOOK LOVERS BALL Donate featuring Preeminent climate change … writer Elizabeth Rush and her highly anticipated new book, The Quickening “Elizabeth Rush’s The Quickening is one part … scenario is literal: Rush, a journalist, joins a crew of scientists aboard a ship headed for a glacier in …
Podcast
Between the Covers
Fiction

R.O. Kwon : The Incendiaries

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 11/01/2018
… R.O. Kwon : The Incendiaries Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on … America’s dark, radical strain, exploring the lure of fundamentalism, our ability to be manipulated, and what … a cause.” — Atlantic.com “A God-haunted, willful, strange book written with a kind of savage elegance. I’ve said it …
Podcast
Between the Covers
Fiction

Susan DeFreitas : Hot Season

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 01/18/2017
… David Naimon, Milkweed Editions An outlaw activist on the run. A pipeline set to destroy a river. And 3 young women … early 90s & mid-aughts, Hot Season explores what Oregon Book Award Winner Cari Luna calls “the charged terrain where … search for identity meets the romantic, illicit lure of direct action.” “Is it worse to destroy a dam or to …