Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces. Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike,ย 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...
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni Okwudili Nebeolisa & Jessica Laser will read from their poetry. Okwudili Nebeolisa will read fromย Terminal Maladies, selected by Nicole Sealey as the winner of the 2023 Center for African American Poetry and Poetics Prize.ย โNebeolisaโs debut,ย Terminal Maladies, introduces a poet so skillful and original that his book represents a vital moment...
Join us in the lobby and Meeting Room D for a pay what you can book sale benefitting the Iowa City Public Library in celebration of Intellectual Freedom Fest! Owners of our Literary Loot Tote Bags can bring their bags to receive three free books at the sale. If you'd like to purchase a bag...
Saturdays 10:30amย toย 11:00am Storytime Room Family Storytime is recommended for all ages and includes both shorter and longer stories combined with action games and activities. ๅฎถๅบญๆ ไบไผๅ ๆฌ่พ้ฟๆ่พ็ญ็ๆ ไบ๏ผๅนถ็ปๅๅจไฝๆธธๆๅ็ธๅ ณๆดปๅจ๏ผ้ไบๅๅนด้พๆฎตๅ ฑๅๅไธใ ๅฆๆจๅ ไธบ่บซไฝๅๅ ้่ฆ็นๅซๅฎๆ๏ผ่ฏท่็ณปๅพไนฆ้ฆใ --------- Family Storytime es para todas las edades e incluye historias mรกs cortas y mรกs largas combinadas con juegos y actividades de acciรณn. If you need disability-related accommodations in...
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series!ย This weekโs event features IWP Residents Priya Hein, Daryl Li, and an MFA Candidate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (TBA) Priya Hein (fiction and nonfiction writer; Mauritius) debuted in 2023 with the novelย Riambel,ย which won the Prix Athรฉna and was recognized as a notable African book...
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...
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Victor Luckerson will read from his sweeping and intimate portrait of racial violence, empowerment, and social action (Kirkus),ย ย Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street.ย He will be joined in conversation by UIowa Assistant Professor Ashley Howard. This event is co-sponsored by...
Tuesdays, 10:30amย toย 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. ยกVen para Book Babies! Divirtรกmonos juntos cantando, leyendo...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023 -6:00pmย toย 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...
Tuesday, October 8, 2024ย Meeting Room D Are you a science fiction or fantasy writer? Are you a new or experienced author who just canโt break through that pesky writerโs block? Do you have knowledge you want to share with your community? Come join your fellow fantasy and science fiction writers for a two-hour write-in...
Poets Cass Donish and Melissa Dickey will read from their latest books;ย Your Dazzling Deathย andย Ordinary Entanglement. Cass Donish will read fromย Your Dazzling Death. โAn elegy is a conversation that never ends. As if death didnโt exist. As if speech isnโt sometimes silence. As if poetry isnโt often the little thatโs left. These poemsโbrilliant, devastatingโare evidence that...
Stephanie Burt will read from her latest book of poetry,ย We Are Mermaids.ย "The poems inย We Are Mermaidsย can be skillfully decoded as trans allegories, or climate anxiety, or disgust at U.S. Fascism, but limiting these poems to one reading would miss the pleasures of their inventiveness, their playfulness, their ease at existing in many states at once."...
