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Community Partner Spotlight: Women's Prison Book Project

Brianna Reed
… Community Partner Spotlight: Women's Prison Book Project What Matters Most Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Our mission is … partnerships to “build an engaged community” around the books and authors we publish. Sometimes partners are …
Authors

Excerpt: The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo

Louise Glück
… Excerpt: The Final Voicemails by Max Ritvo Authors EDITOR ’S NOTE Max Ritvo was a prodigiously gifted poet; toward the end of his life, he was also volcanically productive. Nothing he … urgent, so daring, so supple, so desperately alive. This book has no dedication. Had he lived, I feel certain Max …
Max Ritvo
Poetry
Authors / Interviews / Watch & Listen

More than an audiobook: The River You Touch

… More than an audiobook: The River You Touch Authors / Interviews / Watch & Listen By … ten rivers in five states, camped wild country, met a lot of nice people, visited loved and far-flung friends and … play in Missoula a couple of times, and gave me his first book of poems. As with all great friendships, we started …
Audiobook

Jake Skeets and Beth Piatote at Green Apple Books

San Francisco, CA —
… , CA 94122 United States This event is free and open to the public. Join Jake Skeets and Beth Piatote at Green Apple Books for a reading and discussion of their latest works, Horses and distant water .   Jake … winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and an American Book Award. Beth Piatote Beth Piatote is a Nez Perce scholar, …
Podcast
Between the Covers
Fiction / SF/F

Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints

— 12/01/2019
… Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, … better.” —N.K. Jemisin Read more about Daniel José Older : The Book of Lost Saints … “Older’s spellbinding novel is a fever dream full of magic and loss, wickedness and grace, faith and love, …

Angela Pelster and Shuchi Saraswat at Porter Square Books

Cambridge , MA —
… , MA 02140 United States This event is free and open to the public. Join Angela Pelster with Shuchi Saraswat at Porter Square Books for a reading and discussion of her latest work, Evolution of Fire. Learn More Angela … is a multi-award-winning essayist recognized by PEN , the McKnight Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Minnesota State …

The Loft & Milkweed Books present Katherine Packert Burke

Minneapolis, MN —
… The Loft & Milkweed Books present Katherine Packert Burke … at Milkweed Books beginning at 2 P.M. ABOUT THE BOOK From the author of the “vibrantly, brilliantly alive” (James Frankie Thomas) …   Join The Loft & Milkweed Books as we present a reading with … at Milkweed Books beginning at 2 P.M. ABOUT THE BOOK From the author of the "vibrantly, brilliantly alive" …
Authors / What Matters Most / News / Interviews

Surrender to the current; on writing to survive grief, finding comfort in one’s hybridity, and resisting the urge to write like Rimbaud

Milkweed Staff
… Surrender to the current; on writing to survive grief, finding comfort in … Most / News / Interviews Chris Dombrowski is the author of The River You Touch: Making a Life on Moving Water . He is … in Minneapolis, MN in the midst of touring for his new book, which has just been named a finalist for the Montana …
Editors

Introducing our Editors-at-Large and the Multiverse series

Daniel Slager
… Introducing our Editors-at-Large and the Multiverse series Editors We are excited to welcome three … Editors-at-Large to Milkweed Editions, and along with one of these editors, a new literary series. A LETTER FROM OUR … of poems: The Earth in the Attic;   Alight;   Textu;  a book-long sequence of short poems whose meter is based on …
Awards & Prizes

Kathryn Smith Wins the Fourth Annual Jake Adam York Prize

Milkweed Staff
… Kathryn Smith Wins the Fourth Annual Jake Adam York Prize Awards & Prizes … that judge francine j. harris has chosen Kathryn Smith ’s book Self-Portrait with Cephalopod as the winner of the 2019–20 Jake Adam York Prize . Self-Portrait with … Kathryn Smith ’s book Self-Portrait with Cephalopod as the winner of the 2019–20 Jake Adam York Prize . …