Iowa Writers’ Workshop Poetry alum Alyssa Perry and Rescue Press poet Daisy Atterbury will read from their new books, Oily Doily, and The Kármán Line. Razor-edged, stagger-rhymed, Oily Doily is a diamond saw. Its music is intricate and remorseless as its subject: empire, centuries of bourgeois kitsch, 80s flicks, tech strip - mining our curiosity, sympathy, and desire for...
Dr Leigh Patel, Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, will read from her book No Study Without Struggle: Confronting Settler Colonialism in Higher Education. Booklist describes No Study Without Struggle as a “Thought-provoking interrogation for academics and reformers,” while Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, says, “Patel delivers...
Bestselling author Ada Calhoun will read from her debut novel,Crush, which has been named one of the most anticipated books of 2025 by The New Yorker, Time, and The Washington Post. Molly Ringwald describes Crush as “…a gripping fever dream of a book leading the reading into the beguiling depths of desire, ecstasy, and obsession,” while Emma...
Writers’ Workshop alumni Lewis Robinson (Fiction) and Aaron McCollough (Poetry) will read from their latest books, The Islanders and Salms. Lewis Robinson will read from The Islanders. "The Islanders is at once an engrossing story and a timely, urgent warning: what will happen when the one percent decide to pull up the rope ladder behind them? Robinson’s vividly drawn protagonists...
Join us for a Book Matters reading and discussion, co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Office of the Vice President for Research! This reading will celebrate recent works from Brady G’Sell and Meena Khandelwal, faculty in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies Program. Elana Buch, associate professor of anthropology, will...
Join us for a special Saturday afternoon event with author and historian Pamela Grundy, who will talk about Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women's Basketball (coauthored with Susan Shackelford). The book explores the origins of women’s basketball with pioneers like Senda Berenson and Clelia Mosher, the critical role of Black players and coaches in the...
Writers’ Workshop graduates Steven Duong and Tramaine Suubi will read from their new poetry collections: At the End of the World There Is a Pond, and Phases. Steven Duong will read from At the End of the World There Is a Pond. “In poems striking, humorous, and assured, Steven Duong turns and turns the world over again until...
Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alum Emily Mester will read from her essay collection, American Bulk. In these essays, Mester explores her relationship with consumer culture - the scarcity mindset of Costco, what Olive Garden says about taste and class, finding fraught solidarity at fat camp, the ascent of consumer review culture and its subsequent descent into a...
In a special 6pm event, University of Iowa student contributors to Ink Lit Literary Magazine will read from the latest issue! Ink Lit Mag is a unique undergraduate literary journal published through the generous support of the Magid Center for Writing and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Ink Lit is open to submissions by all first-year...
Join us for the 2025 launch of University of Iowa’s Wilder Things Magazine! The event will feature readings and free copies of the magazine for attendees. Wilder Things Magazine is an undergraduate literary magazine at the University of Iowa whose goal is "To uplift and provide space for unconventional works as we believe in the...
Dr. Maureen McCue will read from her candid, behind the curtains consideration of disability and being human, Dancing In A Disabled World. “I appreciated McCue’s attention to the lived realities of a child who later becomes the adult with developmental and cognitive disabilities.” - Kris Nagel, Psychologist “Maureen McCue’s stunningly candid and immersive memoir raises and...
Join us with restaurant reviewer of over 25 years, cookbook author Wini Moranville, who will read from and discuss her new book, Love Is My Favorite Flavor: A Midwestern Dining Critic Tells All. She will be joined in conversation by Iowa City food blogger, Meredith Lumberg. "In the tradition of the great food writers of our...
