Iowa Writers’ Workshop Poetry alum Alyssa Perry and Rescue Press poet Daisy Atterbury will read from their new books, Oily Doily, and The Kármán Line. Razor-edged, stagger-rhymed, Oily Doily is a diamond saw. Its music is intricate and remorseless as its subject: empire, centuries of bourgeois kitsch, 80s flicks, tech strip - mining our curiosity, sympathy, and desire for...
Saturdays 10:30am to 11:00am Storytime Room Family Storytime is recommended for all ages and includes both shorter and longer stories combined with action games and activities. 家庭故事会包括较长或较短的故事，并结合动作游戏和相关活动，适于各年龄段共同参与。 如您因为身体原因需要特别安排，请联系图书馆。 --------- Family Storytime es para todas las edades e incluye historias más cortas y más largas combinadas con juegos y actividades de acción. If you need disability-related accommodations in...
Shelter House’s 2025 Book Sale will take place on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9! Every bargain-hunting bibliophile’s favorite two-day event will take place from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM both days at 860 Quarry Road in Coralville. Each year, Shelter House fills the Old Antique Car Museum with stories of adventure, mystery, and...
11:00am to 12:30pm Meeting Room E Spoken Word Club is a weekly generative writing workshop that provides teen writers with a safe space to share their work, get inspired, and meet other teen writers in Iowa City. Each meeting will have writing and performance examples, activities, writing prompts, and time to share. This is a casual, comfortable...
Join us for four discussions of Toni Morrison's Beloved and the exhibition it's a fine thing, led by the Stanley’s curator of special projects and author of What Napoleon Could Not Do, Derek (DK) Nnuro. Register for each session by clicking the dates below, capped at 30 participants: Feb. 15 (Pages 1 - 59) March 8 (Pages 60 -...
Shelter House’s 2025 Book Sale will take place on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9! Every bargain-hunting bibliophile’s favorite two-day event will take place from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM both days at 860 Quarry Road in Coralville. Each year, Shelter House fills the Old Antique Car Museum with stories of adventure, mystery, and...
Kelly Hall will read from her book Love Works: Transforming the Workplace with Purpose and Authenticity. Designed as a practical guide for anyone in any shared workspace, Love Works is described by Shawna Reininger of The Conscious Enterprise as a book that "offers specific, actionable steps to create, with love, a compassionate, safe, and connected workplace," while social entrepreneur...
Bestselling author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Curtis Sittenfeld will read from her newest book and second story collection, Show, Don’t Tell. Publishers’ Weekly describes Show, Don’t Tell as “Witty . . . In one sparkling comedy of manners after another, documents with a clear and affectionate eye how tiny prejudices and blind spots lead her protagonists astray,”...
In-person event + Online other Join us every Tuesday for a special Spanish Bilingual Storytime with Children's Librarian Raquel! Together we will enjoy songs, rhymes and stories in Spanish and English. Children of all ages and their caregivers are welcome to join us. Masks are required for all individuals over the age of two. Social...
Poets GC Waldrep and Karen An-Hwei Lee will read from their newest collections, Beautiful Immunity and The Opening Ritual. GC Waldrep’s The Opening Ritual is described by bestselling author and novelist Kaveh Akbar as “the kind of furiously curious, unabashedly ambitious poetry book I want to show everyone, to prove such books can still be written.” G.C. Waldrep was born...
Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alum Laura Julier will read from her River Teeth Nonfiction Prize-winning debut memoir, Off Izaak Walton Road, and will be joined in conversation with author Lori Erickson. "In this lyric memoir, Laura Julier takes us on a journey through long-held feelings of loss and grief—experienced through various landscapes—until she lands in a...
A Community Collaborations Event Presented in partnership with the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Connect with the local writing and moviegoing community for a night of documentary, writing, and discussion. In partnership with FilmScene and the Bijou Film Board, as well as local MFA writer in Nonfiction Grace Morse, join us for a screening...
