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Milkweed Editions is an independent literary press publishing fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

11/11/2025

Happy publication day to HENRY DAVID THOREAU'S KALENDAR: CHARTS AND OBSERVATIONS OF NATURAL PHENOMENA by Kristen Case!⁠
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In the last years of his life, Henry David Thoreau created something new. Combining reproductions of Thoreau’s hand-drawn charts with transcriptions of the KALENDAR'S text and essays by acclaimed scholar Kristen Case, this gorgeously crafted volume illuminates the final project of one of America’s most treasured writers and offers a timeless, transformative vision of how to live harmoniously with the living world around us.⁠
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🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via the link in our bio. And swipe to see Kristen's forthcoming tour!

11/10/2025

In late October, Milkweed Books celebrated the book launch of BOOK OF KIN: ON ABSENCE, LOVE, and BEING THERE by Jennifer Eli Bowen (). The spectacular energy of Jen and her community rang in the halls so profoundly, it knocked us all into gleeful silence.
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We thank Emily Baxter () for photographing the event.

🔗 Pick up your copy of BOOK OF KIN from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via the link in our bio.

11/04/2025

Happy publication day to GOVERNING BODIES: A MEMOIR, A CONFLUENCE, A WATERSHED by Sangamithra Iyer!

“Is it possible to grasp the scale of planetary sorrow and emerge with truth and love as our guides?” asks Sangamithra Iyer. A lyrical debut memoir on family, ecology, and the legacy of colonialism, GOVERNING BODIES is a timeless work with profound relevance.

🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via the link in our bio. And swipe to see Sangamithra 's forthcoming tour!

10/21/2025

🐦‍⬛ Happy publication day to THE BOOK OF KIN: ON ABSENCE, LOVE, AND BEING THERE by Jennifer Eli Bowen!⁠
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📖 “What’s our obligation to each other?” asks Jennifer Eli Bowen in this propulsive exploration of community, solitude, and love. Unflinching, vulnerable, and surprisingly funny, THE BOOK OF KIN encourages us not to abandon each other, reminding us that “harm is shared, and healing is too.”⁠

🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via milkweed.org. And swipe to see Jen's forthcoming tour!

09/30/2025

📗 Out today! A LOS ANGELES TIMES and USA TODAY most anticipated poetry collection, STARTLEMENT by Ada Limón!
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📖 An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America’s most celebrated living writers. “STARTLEMENT is a book of rare treasures. With lyrical mastery and intimate storytelling, Limón’s poetry reveals new ways of paying attention. This powerful collection is a gift.”—Amy Tan
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🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via milkweed.org. And swipe to see Ada's forthcoming tour!

09/23/2025

✨ Now in Paperback! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE and the bestselling and beloved collection, THE HURTING KIND by Ada Limón!⁠
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📖 An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from former U.S. Poet Laureate and MacArthur Fellow Ada Limón.
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🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via milkweed.org. And swipe to see Ada's forthcoming tour for her new and selected collection, STARTLEMENT!

09/18/2025

Join us in honoring [. . .], winner of the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in Poetry.
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From one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, [. . .] by Fady Joudah an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.⁠

Learn more about the American Book Awards at beforecolumbusfoundation.com, and pick up your copy of [. . .] today.

09/16/2025

🧔 Happy Publication Day to THE ESSAYS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU, selected and edited by Lewis Hyde!⁠
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📖 Hyde deems Thoreau’s writing prophetic because “the prophet speaks of things that will be true in the future because they are true in all time.” Thoreau’s revelatory writing coupled with the luminous insights from Hyde—“one of our country’s greatest public thinkers” (Lawrence Weschler)—make THE ESSAYS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU essential reading at a moment in our nation’s history when his subversiveness, foresight, and lyricism are badly needed.
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🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via milkweed.org. And join Lewis Hyde with Lawrence Rosenwald at Wellesley Books on Wednesday, November 13!

09/10/2025

Join us in honoring The Salt Stones by Helen Whybrow, longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction!⁠
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Congratulations to all the longlisted authors! Finalists will be announced 10/7. Learn more at nationalbook.org.
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Set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land. Learn more at milkweed.org.

09/09/2025

🥭 Happy Publication Day to THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS by Jason Allen-Paisant!⁠
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📖 From an exciting new voice in international literature, THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS is a profoundly moving memoir that explores the Black experience in the natural world and the transformative power of plants.
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🔗 Pick up your copy from your favorite bookstore, and learn more via milkweed.org.

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