Event date: Friday, April 19, 2024 - 7:00pm Nonfiction Writing Program alum Matthew Clark will read from Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences, which began as a magazine-style essay about Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, a climate change denier and conspiracy theorizer who also happens to manufacture the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine boards around....
Saturday -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,...
Iowa Writers for Palestine is hosting two drop-in sessions to write poetry in solidarity with Palestine. At the end of each session, we’ll submit our poems to Iowa City Poetry in Public. Poetry in Public selects poems by Johnson County residents of seven lines or less to be published around Iowa City. Through our poetry,...
Event date: Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 2:00pm Please join us for a special Sunday afternoon event and reception with award-winning poet and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in criticism Camille T. Dungy, who will read from Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In Soil, Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the...
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...
Event date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 7:00pm Join us on Earth Day for an engaging discussion featuring climate scientist Dr. Heidi Roop in conversation with UI Office of Sustainability Director Stratis Giannakouros! Dr. Roop’s new book, The Climate Action Handbook, is a visually stunning guide that goes beyond typical climate change literature—it’s approachable, digestible, and filled with...
Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine with Kaveh Akbar, Kevin Goodan, and Katie Marya Event date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 7:00pm Please join us with contemporary poets Kaveh Akbar, Kevin Goodan, and Katie Marya, who will read from the new poetry collection Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems...
Event date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 7:00pm Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Mario Duarte will read from his new book published by Ice Cube Press, My Father Called Us Monkeys. “Mario Duarte juxtaposes innocent voices against tragic and tender moments while giving us a moving snapshot of a young Mexican American boy growing up in the Midwest....
Event date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 7:00pm Ellen Birkett Morris will read from her debut novel, Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence. "Beware the Tall Grass explores the collision of past and present, courage and fear, and love and death like nothing I've read before--a splendid novel. Morris's first-person...
10:30am to 11:00am In-person event + Online other Join us in person for Book Babies! Let's have fun together singing, reading, and rhyming. Book Babies is a program designed to stimulate your infant's language development and is geared towards ages 0-2 years. Parents and caregivers are encouraged to participate as much as possible. Book Babies will meet...
Event date: Friday, April 26, 2024 - 5:30pm Join us at 5:30 pm with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series! NWP alum and former Prairie Lights employee Lucas Mann will read from his new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, and be joined in conversation with author Melissa Febos. "Attachments is an intelligent and searching...
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