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Honoring Tuệ Sỹ

Milkweed Staff

… Tuệ Sỹ Authors / News Milkweed is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Tuệ Sỹ, whose poems we published … and writers, both inside the country and abroad.” When the book was published, Rachel Abrams wrote in a review in … Milkweed is deeply saddened by the recent passing of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Tuệ Sỹ, whose …

University and library common read selections

… Learn more about Braiding Sweetgrass Nonfiction World of Wonders Aimee Nezhukumatathil 04/15/2024 Beloved author … Nonfiction Rising Elizabeth Rush 03/11/2019 Rising weaves the firsthand accounts of those who are living through sea … Quickening Elizabeth Rush 08/12/2024 An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from …

Minnesota authors

… Minnesota authors Fiction The Seed Keeper Diane Wilson 03/08/2021 A haunting novel … following a Dakota family’s struggle to preserve their way of life and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. … Learn more about In Winter’s Kitchen Poetry A Marriage Book James P. Lenfestey 12/11/2017 From James P. Lenfestey, a …

Books for writers

… Memory Victoria Chang 03/16/2026 Now in paperback, from the poet who “resurrects mediums” ( The Millions ), a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering … Adam Wolfond 11/07/2022 In The Wanting Way , the second book in Multiverse—a literary series written and curated by …

Events

Surviving One Breath at a Time: Celebrating the Launch of Creature Needs

Brianna Reed

Environment

Katharina Rout

… Katharina Rout Katharina Rout is a literary translator of contemporary German-language fiction. She grew up in … before moving to Canada, where she became a professor of English literature. Read: Excerpt from The Blue Sky | Literary Hub … Katharina Rout is a literary translator of contemporary German-language fiction. She grew up in …

Seedbank

… Seedbank A new series of world literature Seedbank Just as repositories around the world gather seeds to ensure biodiversity in the future, … Popol Vuh By Michael Bazzett A NEW YORK TIMES BEST POETRY BOOK OF The Year By turns poetic and lucid, sinuous and …

Poetry & Migration

… Poetry & Migration Because We Come From Everything As part of “Because We Come From Everything: Poetry & Migration,” the first formalized programming of the Poetry Coalition, … be made available at Milkweed Books, located in the Open Book literary arts center, for anyone to share poems on the …

Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month

… Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month Poetry The Hurting Kind Ada Limón 09/22/2025 Longlisted for for the … Poetry Prize Longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize An astonishing collection about … Limón, Bright Dead Things examines the dangerous thrill of living in a world you must leave one day and the search to …

JJJJJerome Ellis

… ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. JJJJJ erome dreams of building a sonic bath house! Listen: Samples from Aster of … URL Watch: Responsory; or, when shall we Walk clumsy into the Snow of now | JJJJJerome Read: JJJJJerome Ellis’s The Clearing | The Brooklyn Rail Read: Interview with …