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

Brianna Reed

… Surviving One Breath at a Time: Celebrating the Launch of Creature Needs Events On February 27th, Milkweed Editions and the University of Minnesota Press hosted a book launch to celebrate Creature Needs: Writers Respond to … On February 27th, Milkweed Editions and the University of Minnesota Press hosted a book launch to …

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 …

Authors / Poetry & Migration

On Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo: a monument to multiplicity (and home)

… experiences, and lifeways historically peripheralized by the Western literary canon. But for all the breadth that I encounter still with every new BIPOC -authored book I read, I am routinely enchanted by a sense of what remains familiar. What lands have you been denied, …

Black authors

Memoirs

… Dochartaigh 11/13/2023 In Thin Places , a luminous blend of memoir, history, and nature writing, Kerri ní Dochartaigh … how nature kept her sane and helped her heal after The Troubles. Learn more about Thin Places Nonfiction The … Nonfiction Losing Music John Cotter 04/29/2024 A Best Book of the Year at The Vulture A devastating memoir that …

Community Partnerships

… Milkweed Editions Community Partnerships Expanding the reach and impact of our books At Milkweed Editions we aspire to increase the … include Little Free Library, Firstbook.org, Women’s Prison Book Project, and the Lupine Collaborative. If you are …

Podcast

Between the Covers

Fiction / Hybrid / SF/F

Rodrigo Fresán : Melvill

David Naimon, Milkweed Editions — 12/09/2024

… Editions How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to history … hard to be a reader in 2024. Before getting into a good book, you have to somehow ignore your inbox, avoid … How can a novel set during one brief moment near the end of Herman Melville’s father’s life, a moment lost to …