Join us for a special 6pm poetry and translation event co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Asian Studies department!  Mary Jo Bang, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her fellow poet and translator, Yuki Tanaka will present the first collection in English of twentieth century Japanese surrealist poet Shuzo Takiguchi, A Kiss for...

Scholar and essayist Samira Mehta will read from her book of blended memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, The Racism of People Who Love You. She will be joined in conversation by Ari Ariel.  What Kirkus Reviews describes as "Thoughtful meditations on identity" and what Simran Jeet Singh, author of The Light We Give, describes as "insightful, provocative,...