Milkweed Editions

01/18/2025

🌀☘️📗 A LITTLE GAELIC KINGDOM by Tim Robinson is a mesmerizing journey through the rugged beauty and deep history of Connemara, Ireland’s wild and windswept West Coast. In this evocative masterpiece, Robinson blends personal reflection with stunning landscape descriptions, bringing to life the culture, language, and folklore that define this unique part of the world. Get ready to immerse yourself in a tale of nature, memory, and a land that whispers its secrets to those who listen.⁠
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✨️📦️ Preorder your copy here milkweed.org/book/a-little-gaelic-kingdom before February 17, 2025, and enter code ROBINSON at checkout to receive a free copy of the previous volume in the Connemara trilogy, THE LAST POOL OF DARKNESS.
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🌏️📚️ Learn more about this title and our Seedbank Series of World Literature at milkweed.org/seedbank.

01/16/2025

🔥 Coming this February to paperback, HOUSE OF CARAVANS by Shilpi Suneja was named as one Oprah Daily's “25 Most Anticipated Books of 2025!”⁠
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“If you loved The Covenant of Water you will devour this sweeping debut . . . A moving portrait of a family and a nation divided.”—Oprah Daily (www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/g63187668/most-anticipated-books-of-2025/)
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🔗 Learn more and preorder the paperback here: milkweed.org/book/house-of-caravans?v=812

01/15/2025

Thank you National Endowment for the Arts for the $50,000 grant! These resources will support the publication of the following five forthcoming titles—and two more that have yet to be announced: ⁠
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THE CHOREIC PERIOD: POEMS by Latif Askia Ba⁠ https://milkweed.org/book/the-choreic-period

WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE: A NOVEL by Deni Ellis Béchard⁠ https://milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine

MARGINLANDS: A JOURNEY INTO INDIA’S VANISHING LANDSCAPES by Arati Kumar-Rao⁠ https://milkweed.org/book/marginlands

SMALL WARS MANUAL: POEMS by Chris Santiago⁠ https://milkweed.org/book/small-wars-manual

WEDDING OF THE FOXES: ESSAYS by Katherine Larson https://milkweed.org/book/wedding-of-the-foxes
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We are grateful for the continued national support for our publishing program. Congratulations to all of the grantees! Learn more about the National Endowment for the Arts and this year's grant recipients here: www.arts.gov/news/press-releases/2025/national-endowment-arts-supports-arts-nearly-368-million-funding-nationwide.

01/14/2025

🎉 Happy Publication Day to THE OCEAN IN THE NEXT ROOM: POEMS by Sarah V. Schweig! 🎉 ⁠ milkweed.org/book/the-ocean-in-the-next-room
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“This extraordinary collection of poems does that strange thing Hegel tells us all great art does: it makes appear the structures that would otherwise remain invisible to us. Through a series of interconnected pieces, this collection works through and brings to light the complexities of life lived in the twenty-first century.”—Cynthia Cruz, author of Hotel Oblivion⁠
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Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism.⁠
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“The question isn’t / what exists,” writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection, “The question is what doesn’t / die with us?” Positioned from within the morass of modern-day living, The Ocean in the Next Room searches for the hard, abiding particles of truth buried beneath our frenzied consumer culture. Stillness. Sunsets. The circadian rhythm of trees. These poems guide us to look past branding, content-creation, and relentless jargon to find meaning in those layers of the world that operate without human intervention.⁠
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Pick up THE OCEAN IN THE NEXT ROOM from your favorite local indie bookstore today!
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And join us for a book launch event featuring the author and Gibson Fay-LeBlanc on February 13th at Print: A Bookstore in Portland, Maine! Details: www.printbookstore.com/event/sarahschweig

01/13/2025

📙 “A heartfelt, observant chronicle of India’s wilderness.”—Kirkus Reviews⁠
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🇮🇳 In MARGINLANDS, Arati Kumar-Rao embarks on a heartfelt journey across India, driven by a deep love for nature and a desire to protect it. Growing up in Mumbai, she was taught to cherish both the natural world and storytelling. After years in a corporate job, she set out to discover the untold stories of India's land and people. From the ancient rainwater harvesting methods of the Thar Desert to the endangered ecosystems of the Ganges Delta, and the rapidly disappearing glaciers in the Himalayas, Kumar-Rao explores the urgent environmental crises reshaping India. Illustrated with her own photographs and drawings, this compelling narrative blends personal reflection with a call to action, inspiring readers worldwide to preserve our fragile planet.⁠
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📚️ Publishing on February 11, preorder your copy from your favorite local indie bookstore or learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/marginlands.

01/10/2025

We are stoked—yet not surprised—to see A HOLE IN THE STORY: A NOVEL by Ken Kalfus on Literary Hub's "Most Anticipated Books of 2025" list: https://lithub.com/lit-hubs-most-anticipated-books-of-2025/4/

"Ken Kalfus is my favorite writer that no one (it seems) has heard of; his latest book is “a darkly comic novel dissecting the misjudgments, hypocrisies, and occasional good motives that drive our politics and our journalism, as well as our most intimate personal relation,” which honestly might be too on the nose, but also might be just right."—Emily Temple, Managing Editor, Literary Hub

Learn more and preorder your copy here: https://milkweed.org/book/a-hole-in-the-story.

Well, 2024 was fairly bad, and 2025 may in fact be worse. Regardless, we will be reading. Here are the books the Lit Hub staff is most excited to pick up in the (first half of the) year ahead. JANU…

01/08/2025

🎉 Join us in celebrating: BECOMING LITTLE SHELL by Chris La Tray is a 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award winner!⁠

“La Tray invites us to walk with him as he navigates the complexities of identity, ancestry, and the enduring legacy of Montana's Little Shell Tribe. This is a journey that spans generations, weaving personal memoir with the rich and often painful history of a people fighting to maintain their heritage in the face of adversity. We witness not only the struggles and injustices, but also the unwavering strength of the Little Shell spirit, their deep connection to the land, and enduring power of family bonds.”—Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (www.pnba.org/2025-winners.html)
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📖 Pick up your copy of this award-winning memoir from your favorite independent bookstore today! Learn more here: milkweed.org/book/becoming-little-shell.

01/06/2025

🟦 An imaginative, thought-provoking, and intensely compelling work of speculative fiction—for fans of Emily St. John Mandel, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and David Mitchell.⁠ (milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine)
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📖 A haunting novel exploring artificial intelligence and the meaning of human existence, preorder WE ARE DREAMS IN THE ETERNAL MACHINE, the latest from author Deni Ellis Béchard, today! ⁠
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📰 “Béchard digs deep into these techno-spiritual speculations and the result is a poetic and profound meditation on what dreams may come in the metaverse.”—Toronto Star⁠
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📆 Join us virtually on Tuesday, February 4 at 6PM (CST) for a book launch celebration featuring the author in conversation with Milkweed Editions CEO & Publisher Daniel Slager. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-launch-deni-ellis-bechard-in-conversation-with-daniel-slager-tickets-1136090219429?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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🔗 Learn more and preorder your copy here: https://milkweed.org/book/we-are-dreams-in-the-eternal-machine.

12/23/2024

📚🎁 ICYMI, here's our 2024 Book Lovers Holiday Gift Guide: https://milkweed.org/blog/2024-book-lovers-holiday-gift-guide.

Because reading is life-changing, and books make the best gifts! In addition to our perennial favorite gift book, the hardcover special edition of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer, our hand-selected recommendations are here to help you work through your holiday list.

Join our membership program to support the publication of life-changing literature like this and receive a 20% discount on all Milkweed books! Learn more at milkweed.org/membership.

12/22/2024

Dip into THE SCIENCE OF LAST THINGS by Ellen Wayland-Smith via this excerpt featured in Orion Magazine: https://orionmagazine.org/article/how-to-live-in-deep-time/.

Pick up your copy from your favorite bookseller today, or learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-science-of-last-things.

Minneapolis-area readers: Join us for a reading and conversation with the author here at Open Book on January 7, 2025: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/milkweed-presents-a-reading-with-ellen-wayland-smith-colin-hamilton-tickets-1105658838349?aff=oddtdtcreator.

On the universe and self

12/21/2024

We're hiring! Learn more here: https://milkweed.org/job-posting-part-time-warehouse-associate-bookseller.

12/19/2024

"If a period could be italicized, this is the poet who could do it."—CAConrad
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THE CHOREIC PERIOD by Latif Askia Ba is a ground-breaking collection of poems exploring disability, syntax, and rhythm from a Brooklyn-based Senegalese American writer with cerebral palsy. ⁠
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Meeting each reader with corporeal generosity, these poems create space to practice a radical reclamation of movement and the body. Together. In dialogue. In disability. At the bodega, in the examination room, on the move. “This way. My body looks like a dancing tattoo.” Here, the drum of the body punctuates thought in unexpected and invigorating time signatures.⁠
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New from our Multiverse series and publishing in January, preorder THE CHOREIC PERIOD by Latif Askia Ba from your favorite bookseller today, or learn more here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-choreic-period.
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New York City area readers: Join us and Books Are Magic at Brooklyn Poets on Tuesday, January 21, for a book launch celebrating THE CHOREIC PERIOD featuring a reading and conversation with the author and Jay Deshpande . Learn more and get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-latif-askia-ba-the-choreic-period-w-jay-deshpande-tickets-1092808332139?aff=oddtdtcreator.
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Multiverse is a literary series devoted to different ways of languaging, curated by neurodivergent poet Chris Martin, and featuring a chorus of editorial voices. Multiverse primarily emerges from the practices and creativity of neurodivergent, autistic, neuroqueer, mad, nonspeaking, and disabled cultures. Learn more about our Multiverse series here: https://milkweed.org/multiverse.

12/11/2024

👀 First look: MAKING A LIVING: POEMS by Rosalie Moffett, publishing on March 18, 2025. ⁠
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📖 A brilliant and lithe collection of poems making space for the resolve and hope of motherhood amid consumerist dreams and nightmares.⁠
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🔗 Learn more and preorder here: milkweed.org/book/making-a-living
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🎨 Cover art by Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang (Beach Plastic), cover design by Mary Austin Speaker

12/09/2024

📰 Read this beautiful interview with Robin Wall Kimmerer in the New York Times that touches on the profound impact of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS on everyone from Robin to readers to international artists, and highlights fellow Milkweed authors J. Drew Lanham and Debra Magpie Earling: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/books/review/robin-wall-kimmerer-the-serviceberry.html.

➡️ Swipe through for some highlights!

📚️ Stock up on copies of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS and all of the other incredible titles mentioned at your local independent bookstore today!

12/09/2024

👀 A first look at THE END OF CHILDHOOD: POEMS by Wayne Miller, publishing on March 25, 2025.

📖 A tender and provocative collection of poems interrogating the troubles and wonders of both childhood and parenthood against the backdrop of global violence.

🔗 Learn more and preorder here: milkweed.org/book/the-end-of-childhood.

🎨 Cover art by Julie Blackmon; cover design by Adam Bohanan

12/06/2024

“I’m interested in the way that as writers we can think of our work as offerings, as things that go out in the world and do work beyond us [. . .] When I think of loving-kindness as an offering that spirals outward, I think that poems can do that too.”—U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

In a recent episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sat down with Limón to discuss how poems can slow us down and return us to the present moment, her practice of loving-kindness and how it influences her writing, and how writing can be an act of offering something back to the planet. Read or listen to the conversation here: https://tricycle.org/magazine/ada-limon-power-poetry/?utm_campaign=02527038&utm_source=p3s4h3r3s.

Learn more about YOU ARE HERE: POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD here: https://milkweed.org/you-are-here-poetry-in-the-natural-world.

Poet Laureate Ada Limón talks with Tricycle about her firm belief in the power of poetry as an offering of loving-kindness to the world

12/03/2024

Today is ! As a nonprofit press, we appreciate the contributions you all have made to sustain our publishing program. Without your. support, we would not be able to publish life-changing literature like these 20 books we published in 2024! ⁠
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Consider joining our membership program as a sustainer for as little as $5/month to help us publish our incredible forthcoming line-up of books scheduled for 2025 and beyond!⁠ Learn more here: milkweed.org/milkweed-membership.
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We are grateful for your continued support as readers, members, librarians, educators, booksellers (we love you, booksellers!), donors, authors, conversation partners, book club hosts, board members, community partners, fans, followers, email subscribers, and sharers of the work we do. Thank you. ⁠
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Milkweed Editions is an independent publisher of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. We believe that literature has the potential to change the way we see the world.

12/03/2024

“Part memoir, part manifesto, ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ calls for radically changing our relationship with plants and ecosystems from one of unchecked consumption into one of reciprocity and care. It’s also a tender and poignant love letter to Kimmerer’s plant teachers — from the humble mosses that captivated her as a graduate student to majestic western red cedars with trunks that can span 50 feet, which Kimmerer calls by their Salish name, Mother Cedar.”—The New York Times

Pick up your copies of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS and her new book THE SERVICEBERRY wherever you like to get your books. Pro tip: the special edition hardcover of BRAIDING SWEETGRASS makes a perfect holiday gift!

Check out the full story on Robin Wall Kimmerer in The New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/books/braiding-sweetgrass-serviceberry-robin-wall-kimmerer.html.

The world is a gift, not a giant Amazon warehouse, Robin Wall Kimmerer said. In her new book, “The Serviceberry,” she proposes gratitude as an antidote to prevailing views of nature as a commodity.