Milkweed Editions Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Join us in congratulating Hayan Charara, whose collection of poems THESE TREES, THOSE LEAVES, THIS FLOWER, THAT FRUIT is a 2023 Kingsley Tufts Award finalist! ⁦ https://t.co/exkG09kkYL

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Tune in to hear Juliet Patterson speak more about SINKHOLE on @PPB. Fargo folks be sure to catch Juliet at Zandbroz's this Friday at 5:30PM! https://t.co/rhODpgWFfX

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How fantastic is this animation of @adalimon's poem "How to Triumph Like a Girl" from her collection BRIGHT DEAD THINGS?! 🐎🐎🐎 #WomensHistoryMonth @MTV https://milkweed.org/book/bright-dead-things https://twitter.com/MTV/status/1503007982363193348

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We are thrilled to announce that @danalevinpoet has selected Christopher Brean Murray's BLACK OBSERVATORY as the winner of the 2021-22 Jake Adam York Prize! 🎉🎉🎉 @coppernickel Read the full announcement here: https://milkweed.org/blog/christopher-brean-murray-wins-the-sixth-annual-jake-adam-york-prize https://t.co/C4B5z6ZjJa

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"REAL PHONIES AND GENUINE FAKES is a book that revels in the play inherent in dress-up . . . The most graceful and capacious among us — Dolly Parton certainly being the model again — can allow for all of it to be real." @On_The_Seawall @nbeerpoet 🎭🎭🎭 https://www.ronslate.com/on-real-phonies-and-genuine-fakes-poems-by-nicky-beer/

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"When My Gender is First Named Disorder," from @tagreathouse's WOUND FROM THE MOUTH OF A WOUND, in @NYTmag ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Selected by @VChangPoet ❣️ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/14/magazine/poem-when-my-gender-is-first-named-disorder.html

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The "Poem of the Week" in @GuardianBooks is an excerpt from Marilyn Hacker & Karthika Naïr's A DIFFERENT DISTANCE: A RENGA, a collaborative book of poems written during the pandemic. Poet Carol Rumens calls the collection "briskly alive" ✨✨ https://t.co/uJHEsqOK8t

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📚 Out today: Jos Charles's A YEAR & OTHER POEMS, a stunning, lyrical meditation on time and mourning. 🎧 Listen to Jos's conversation with @_jeevika on @MorningEdition about her third collection ⬇️ https://t.co/ujvSC2Ax9R

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Join us in congratulating @MKDorDiggsy: WORLDLY THINGS is the winner of the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry! 🎉🎉🎉 https://www.washburn.edu/mabee/ksbookaward/ https://t.co/FEMxp6QVHe

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"One of my favorite new poetry books is EYES BOTTLE DARK WITH A MOUTHFUL OF FLOWERS by Jake Skeets...His poems bring us an intimate portrait of Diné masculinity." @MariposaBoy's new piece for @latimes includes a lovely shoutout to @blackstreakwood! https://t.co/LOPsczyChL