Iris Jamahl Dunkle will read from her new biography, Riding Like the Wind: The Life of Sanora Babb. Sheâll be joined in conversation by UIowa Professor Harry Stecopoulos. Riding Like the Wind brings well-deserved attention to writer Sonora Babb, whose writing on the migrant farmers of the Dust Bowl was used by John Steinbeck in the creation...
Pappyland author and ESPN senior writer Wright Thompson will read from and talk about his shocking and revelatory account of the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi.  âThe Barn is the most brutal, layered and absolutely beautiful book about Mississippi, and really how the world conspired with the best...
Author You Yoyo and translator Jeremy Tiang will read from and talk bout Yuâs fiction debut, Invisible Kitties: A Feline Study of Fluid Mechanics or the Spurious Incidents of the Cats in the Night-Time. "Chinese poet Yu's fiction debut is utterly charming, particularly so for cat-lovers, who might argue that every bit of magic here is...
To be Native American is to live in a world of contradictions. At the same time that the number of people in the US who claim Native identity has explodedâincreasing 85 percent in just ten yearsâthe number of people formally enrolled in Tribes has not. While the federal government recognizes Tribal sovereignty, being a member...
BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel. Dantas Lobato was born and raised in Natal, Brazil, and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Blue Light Hours is her debut novel.
Please join us for the IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This weekâs event features IWP Residents Karoline Kamel, PĂŠter ZĂĄvada, and an MFA Candidate from the Iowa Writers' Workshop (TBA) Karoline Kamel (nonfiction and fiction writer, journalist, filmmaker; Egypt) is a Cairo-based journalist and the author of the novel Victoria (2022). She has published stories with a focus...
Sunday, October 13, 2024 -2:00pm to 4:00pm Storytime Room Get an early start on Halloween preparation in with this easy and fun craft that will have you flapping your hands all around your home! This is a companion, follow-up event with the Schools Out: Incredible Bats Meet & Greet that taking place on October 11th, from 3...
Join us for a special event at 2pm! Local author/illustrator Claudia McGehee will read from, talk about, and share images from the new childrenâs book she illustrated by Nancy White Carlstrom, Counting Winter! "Itâs a counting book. Itâs a winter animal book. Itâs a just plain beautiful book! . . . Though weather and color palettes...
Honor Moore will read from her moving and timely new memoir, A Termination. She will be joined in conversation by author Mary Allen. âThis book is a meditation, back and forth in time, on art, life, and what truly constitutes freedom of choice. How does a solo female make a destiny for herself instead of submitting to...
Stephanie Burt will read from her latest book of poetry, We Are Mermaids. "The poems in We Are Mermaids 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."...
Poets Cass Donish and Melissa Dickey will read from their latest books; Your Dazzling Death and Ordinary Entanglement. Cass Donish will read from Your Dazzling Death. âAn elegy is a conversation that never ends. As if death didnât exist. As if speech isnât sometimes silence. As if poetry isnât often the little thatâs left. These poemsâbrilliant, devastatingâare evidence that...
Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor Victor Luckerson will read from his sweeping and intimate portrait of racial violence, empowerment, and social action (Kirkus),  Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street. He will be joined in conversation by UIowa Assistant Professor Ashley Howard. This event is co-sponsored by...
