Fridays, -12:00pm to 1:30pm In-person event + Livestream Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Images of America The Fall IWP Residents share impressions of their time in the United States. The IWP Friday Panel Discussion series provides an opportunity for the residents of Iowa City to meet and converse with writers from around...
Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists. Tell...
Poets Hannah Bonner and Dan Wriggins will read from their debut poetry collections. Hannah Bonner will read from Another Woman, published by Eastover Press. Poet Carlie Hoffman writes, "“A book of eros and "wild risk," Hannah Bonner's spellbinding debut, Another Woman, conjures "a water so febrile it is almost fire." In the aftermath of the end of a...
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...
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Tabish Khair (Denmark) and Elena Salamanca (El Salvador), with Writers’ Workshop MFA student ko ko thett. Tabish Khair is a fiction and nonfiction writer, journalist, poet, and academic. He is the author of Just Another Jihadi Jane, The Body by 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...
Join us for a special Book Matters reading and reception, co-sponsored with the University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research! This event is to celebrate recent books by Louisa Hall and Bennett Sims, faculty in the University of Iowa Department of English. After short readings from the books, Donika Kelly, associate professor...
Tuesdays, 10:30am to 11:00am Storytime Room Join us 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. ¡Ven para Book Babies! Divirtámonos juntos cantando, leyendo...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 -6:00pm to 8:00pm Meeting Room D All writers are welcome to join us at The Violet Realm where we talk about all things fantasy and science fiction. Are you a new writer starting on your first book? Are you an experienced author who's looking to spruce up your work? Then join us for...
Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Please join us at the Iowa City Public Library with Ruth Harkin, who will read from and talk about her new book, When My Husband Ran for President and Other Short Stories. She will be joined in conversation by fellow former Iowa Board of Regents member Bob...
Maryann Lesert will read from her impassioned story of anti-fracking activism (Kirkus), Land Marks. "Land Marks is an important and powerful novel, and deserves its place in a growing literature of ecological resistance. Read it, and then act.”—Derrick Jensen Inspired by two years that Mary Ann Lesert spent doing boots-on-well-sites research, Land Marks honors the real-life environmental activism of...
Fridays, -12:00pm to 1:30pm In-person event + Livestream Meeting Room A, Meeting Room B, Meeting Room C Images of America The Fall IWP Residents share impressions of their time in the United States. The IWP Friday Panel Discussion series provides an opportunity for the residents of Iowa City to meet and converse with writers from around...
