As part of Winona State University’s ongoing Celebration of the Book, H. Emerson Blake, the editor-in chief of Milkweed Editions, speaks on ”The State of the Book and the Role of the Small Press” Wednesday, April 13, at 7 p.m., in Stark Auditorium.
Milkweed Editions is one of the largest nonprofit literary presses in the country, with more than 115 books of poetry fiction, nonfiction and criticism in publication and more than 1.5 million volumes in print. The press was founded in 1979 by Randy Scholes and Emilie Buchwald.
H. Emerson Blake was formerly the executive editor of Orion magazine, a national literary and arts magazine published by the nonprofit Orion Society. He succeeded Buchwald in 2004 as head of the press and is a spokesman for the mission of small press publishing.
The Celebration of the Book is a semester-long event intended to highlight the importance of the book as both an object and a cultural wellspring. It has been organized by the Consortium for Liberal Arts Promotion (CLAP) and is sponsored by Winona State¹s English, History, Geoscience, Education and Art Departments; the Residential College; the WSU Library; the WSU Foundation; and Sutton Hoo Press.
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