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John McCarthy

… John McCarthy John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses , selected by Victoria Chang as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. He is the author of one previous poetry collection, Ghost County , … John McCarthy is the author of Scared Violent Like Horses , selected by …

Bookstore / Roundup

Bookseller Recommendations: December

Milkweed Staff

… and merriment, and you’d think that theme would show up in the books we’ve been reading over at Milkweed … but somehow, … and memoirs? Read on for some excellent gift ideas for the book lover on your holiday shopping list—or yourself! BAILEY The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Gallery / Saga …

the only good indians

stephen graham jones

austen years

rachel cohen

Hannah Emerson

… Hannah Emerson Hannah Emerson is the author of The Kissing of Kissing , as well as the chapbook You Are Helping This Great Universe Explode . … Hannah Emerson is the author of The Kissing of Kissing , as well as the chapbook You Are …

Yuri Rytkheu

… Yuri Rytkheu (1930–2008) was born in Uelen, a village in the Chukotka region of Siberia. He sailed the Bering Sea, worked on Arctic geological expeditions, and … to writing over a dozen novels and collections of stories. The English translation of his book A Dream in Polar Fog was …

Wendy Call

… Writers’ Guide and Best Literary Translations , author of the award-winning No Word for Welcome , and translator of two … of poetry by Mexican-Zapotec poet Irma Pineda: In the Belly of Night and Other Poems and Nostalgia Doesn’t Flow … Her literary projects have been supported by Artist Trust, the Fulbright Commission, and the National Endowment for the …

Marie-Claire Bancquart

… Bancquart Marie-Claire Bancquart (1932–2019) is the author of Every Minute Is First and more than thirty … of poetry and several novels. In her lifetime she was the recipient of numerous prizes, including the Prix Supervielle, the Prix Max Jacob, and the Prix Robert …

Authors

Presence and Absence: A Cover Image Story

Milkweed Staff

… Absence: A Cover Image Story Authors by Victoria Chang The cover for Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief , emerged organically, in the same way that this book emerged. After my mother died, there was the obvious grieving of my mother as body, as mind, as …

Authors / Watch & Listen

Remembering Max Ritvo

… sign my chest! ” he yelled, shouldering his way through the crowd), and then more officially one Friday in May 2016, when we received the manuscript of Four Reincarnations . We acquired the book just three days later, and life at Milkweed was … sign my chest! " he yelled, shouldering his way through the crowd), and then more officially one Friday in May 2016, …

Max Ritvo

Four Reincarnations

Yalie Saweda Kamara

… and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate … a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow, she is the editor of the anthology What You Need to Know About Me: Young Writers … and researcher from Oakland, California. Selected as the 2022–2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate …

Arra Lynn Ross

… Arra Lynn Ross Arra Lynn Ross is the author of Seedlip and Sweet Apple and Day of the Child , forthcoming in November 2021. Poems and essays … , River Teeth , Denver Quarterly , Poetry Northwest , The Iowa Review , Prairie Schooner , Cave Wall , Antioch … Arra Lynn Ross is the author of Seedlip and Sweet Apple and Day of the Child …