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Claire Wahmanholm

… Claire Wahmanholm Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder , Redmouth , and, most recently, Meltwater , which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Minnesota Book Award, and was a National Book Award … Claire Wahmanholm is the author of Wilder , Redmouth , and, most recently, …
Authors / News

Coming Fall 2018: More Max Ritvo

… Coming Fall 2018: More Max Ritvo Authors / News “Even the present tense has some grace of past tense what with all the present tense left to go.” —Max Ritvo, The Final Voicemails   Less than two years ago, Max Ritvo … “Even the present tense has some grace of past tense what with all …
Max Ritvo
Sarah Ruhl
Poetry
Awards & Prizes

Patrick Johnson wins 2019 Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry

… CREDIT: MIDWEST STORY LAB   Khaled Mattawa, judge of the Ballard Spahr Prize for Poetry, has selected Patrick Johnson to be recipient of the 2019 prize for his manuscript Gatekeeper . Johnson will … 2019. Notably, Gatekeeper was previously a finalist of the 2017 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry, and twice a …
Authors

Excerpt: Antonio Michael Downing's Saga Boy

Antonio Michael Downing
… Antonio Michael Downing's Saga Boy Authors What is home? The house you grew up in? Your hometown? Where-ever your … woke up in a blizzard. I moved from Southern Trinidad in the Caribbean Sea to Northern Ontario, Canada. My grandmother … Miss Excelly, who was my whole universe, was gone. The way people looked and spoke, the assumptions they made, …

Alexandra Manglis

… Manglis is a coeditor of 21 | 19: Contemporary Poets in the Nineteenth-Century Archive . She is also a writer and and cofounder of the experimental poetry magazine Wave Composition . Her work has appeared in The Millions , the Times Literary Supplement , the Los …
Authors / What Matters Most / Watch & Listen

What Matters Most | Ep. 1 Adam Clay

Milkweed Staff
… What Matters Most / Watch & Listen Video URL Note: To view the closed captions, click the YouTube logo in the bottom right corner to view the video on YouTube. … Note: To view the closed captions, click the YouTube logo in the bottom right corner to view the video …
Poetry
Adam Clay
Video
Authors / What Matters Most / Roundup

Celebrating Earth through books & beyond

Milkweed Staff
… is slipperier than ever, it feels crucial to make tangible the impact and value of our stories today. This April, I’m thinking about “transformative” stories in the timely context of Earth month; I’m thinking about the ways Milkweed publishes titles that not only represent a …
earth month
environmental literature

Allison Adair

… Review , and ZYZZYVA , among other journals. Allison is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review Editors’ Award, the Orlando Prize, and … Review , and ZYZZYVA , among other journals. Allison is the recipient of the Pushcart Prize, the Florida Review …
Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: August

Milkweed Staff
… From divine quests in Jazz Age Mexico to an examination of the “model minority” myth to an Eyre-esque romance, we’re … me long enough get around to reading this book, one of the most definitive texts in sci-fi history from arguably the genre’s most significant author, the one and only Octavia …
Authors / Watch & Listen

There is No Them; There is Only Us: An Excerpt from Hearth

Luis Alberto Urrea
… .   Soundcloud URL   Editor’s Note: On a recent episode of the podcast On Being , Luis Alberto Urrea appeared in … what borders are really about, what we do with them, and the fullness of what it is to be Mexican (and American). The deep truth of our time, he says, is that “we miss each …
Luis Alberto Urrea
Hearth