Prairie Lights Los Angeles Review of Books poetry editor Elizabeth Metzger will read from Lying In. “A book orbiting sacrifice, orbiting the way(s) one generation gives life then gives way to the next. . . Elizabeth Metzger has become one of my favorite living poets.”- Kaveh Akbar Metzger is the author of The Spirit Papers, winner of...

Prairie Lights DNA Wildlife technician Jeff Wilson will read from and talk about his new book, Wrong Tree: Adventures in Wildlife Biology. "As a DNR Wildlife Technician, Jeff Wilson spent 21 years banding ospreys, helping manage beavers, dealing with bears and so much more. His love for animals began during his growing-up years on an Iowa...

Prairie Lights The Krause Series in Contemporary Nonfiction presents Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alum Brittany Means, who will read from her new book of essays, Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways. "Brittany Means has pieced together the shards of a devastating childhood in this powerful memoir. It's gut-wrenching but at the same time triumphant, harrowing...

Prairie Lights Minneapolis Fire Captain and first responder Jeremy Norton will talk about Trauma Sponges: Dispatches from the Scarred Heart of Emergency Response. "With clarity and sensitivity, Jeremy Norton has written an eye-opening book that shows us what firefighting is often about: encountering medical emergencies more often than fires, helping strangers through the trauma of death...

Prairie Lights Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Artur Domosławski (non-fiction, journalist; Poland) has among his titles Gorączka latynoamerykańska , Śmierć w Amazonii , the essay collection Wykluczeni  and two biographies: Ryszard Kapuściński: A Life, for...

Prairie Lights Join us for a reading and discussion, co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research, to celebrate The Theory of Being: Practices for Transforming Self and Communities Across Difference, edited by a research team from the UI College of Education including Sherry K. Watt, Duhita Mahatmya, Milad Mohebali, and Charles Martin-Stanley II....

Prairie Lights Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Iya Kiva (poet, translator, journalist; Ukraine) is the author of poetry volumes  (2018) and  (2019). Her poems have been translated into more than 30 languages and...

Prairie Lights The Iowa City Book Festival presents Writers' Workshop faculty member Tracie Morris, who will share her latest poetry collection, Human/Nature. "Tracie Morris is the genius poet of the double-dutch: crafted, elegant, urgent, playful, fun, and musically timed. In human/nature poems, Morris dismantles gentrification, climate violence, space/history travel, ancestry, and inspires us to look at our...

Prairie Lights Join us for the International Writing Program's Prairie Lights Reading Series this Sunday to hear readings by two 2023 Fall Residency writers and one University of Iowa MFA student. Orit Gidali (poet, children’s book author, editor; Israel) is the author, most recently, of the poetry volume התאומים  (2021); Twenty Girls to Envy Me, a Hebrew-English...

Prairie Lights Margo Steines will read from her new book Brutalities, “a searing, vivid memoir that investigates the dynamics of violence, power, desire, and a body pushed to the brink.” She will be joined in conversation by Nonfiction Writing Professor Melissa Febos. “Brutalities is electric with insight, riveted by its commitments—to love and bewilderment, to bearing witness—and utterly...

Prairie Lights Join us for an evening with Writers’ Workshop graduates and poets Michael Dumanis and Johannes Göransson. Jericho Brown calls Michael Dumanis’s Creature “a brilliant book, a gift that fills needs we didn’t know we needed. This book is a word-drunk movement. I am so envious that I didn’t write it.” Michael Dumanis is the author...

Prairie Lights Kaveh Akbar will read from his edited anthology,  The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse:110 Poets on the Divine. He will be joined in conversation by IWP Director and poet, Christopher Merrill. This rich and surprising anthology is a holistic, global survey of a lyric conversation about the divine. These works range from The Epic of...