Event date: Tuesday, May 7, 2024 - 7:00pm Poet SÊamus Fey about their new poetry collection decompose, published by Not a Cult Media. He will be joined in conversation by Carmen Maria Machado. decompose explores pruning our past to make room for future growth; the expanse we are offered through the crush of heartbreak, discovering family beyond our...
Event date: Monday, May 6, 2024 - 7:00pm Edgar Award nominated, New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author Heather Gudenkauf will read from her latest thriller, Everyone is Watching. Described by Mary Cobb as a "Big Brother meets Clue" locked-room mystery, this latest thriller explores what happens when a high-stakes game/reality show proves life-threatening. "Riveting, relentless, and absolutely captivating! Heather Gudenkauf...
Event date: Saturday, May 4, 2024 - 4:00pm Join us a at 4pm with the Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing for a reading and reception to celebrate the launch of Ink Lit Mag No. 26!  The mission of Ink Lit Mag is to provide experience and support to undergraduate students who are interested in learning about publishing...
Event date: Friday, May 3, 2024 - 7:00pm Please join us for a special event with beloved Iowa folk musician Greg Brown, who will read from and talk about Ring Around The Moon - A Songbook.  Due to limited space, this will be a ticketed event for the first 150 takers. Tickets are free, must be picked...
Event date: Thursday, May 2, 2024 - 7:00pm David Coster will read from Even So: Stories from an Overpopulated Farmhouse, published by Ice Cube Press. He will be joined in conversation by Ralph Savarese. âEven So is a rich, loving, and irreverent description of a chaotic and resilient family: both a snapshot of a quickly receding past and...
Writers' Workshop alumni Jorrell Watkins and Romeo Oriogun will read from their poetry. Jorrell Watkins will read from Play/House, published by Northwestern University Press. âThe ideas of 'play' and 'house' are interwoven gradually in Jorrell Watkinsâs debut collection, with the changing light stretching and bending the shadows of masculinity, familial intimacy, and societal violences. Through his...
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Event date: Friday, April 26, 2024 - 5:30pm Join us at 5:30 pm with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Reading Series!  NWP alum and former Prairie Lights employee Lucas Mann will read from his new book, Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances, and be joined in conversation with author Melissa Febos. "Attachments is an intelligent and searching...
Event date: Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 7:00pm Ellen Birkett Morris will read from her debut novel, Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence. "Beware the Tall Grass explores the collision of past and present, courage and fear, and love and death like nothing I've read before--a splendid novel. Morris's first-person...
Event date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024 - 7:00pm Iowa Writersâ Workshop alum Mario Duarte will read from his new book published by Ice Cube Press, My Father Called Us Monkeys. âMario Duarte juxtaposes innocent voices against tragic and tender moments while giving us a moving snapshot of a young Mexican American boy growing up in the Midwest....
Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine with Kaveh Akbar, Kevin Goodan, and Katie Marya Event date: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 7:00pm Please join us with contemporary poets Kaveh Akbar, Kevin Goodan, and Katie Marya, who will read from the new poetry collection Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems...
Event date: Monday, April 22, 2024 - 7:00pm Join us on Earth Day for an engaging discussion featuring climate scientist Dr. Heidi Roop in conversation with UI Office of Sustainability Director Stratis Giannakouros! Dr. Roopâs new book, The Climate Action Handbook, is a visually stunning guide that goes beyond typical climate change literatureâitâs approachable, digestible, and filled with...
