Event date: Sunday, April 21, 2024 - 2:00pm Please join us for a special Sunday afternoon event and reception with award-winning poet and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in criticism Camille T. Dungy, who will read from Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden. In Soil, Dungy recounts the seven-year odyssey to diversify her garden in the...
Event date: Friday, April 19, 2024 - 7:00pm Nonfiction Writing Program alum Matthew Clark will read from Bjarki, Not Bjarki: On Floorboards, Love, and Irreconcilable Differences, which began as a magazine-style essay about Bjarki Thor Gunnarsson, a climate change denier and conspiracy theorizer who also happens to manufacture the widest, purest, most metaphorical pine boards around....
Event date: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 - 7:00pm Please join us with author Kaori Fujino & translator Kendall Heitzman for a bilingual reading of the Japanese literary horror novella Nails & Eyes. Awarded the 2023-24 JapanâU.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, Nails & Eyes is "Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans...
Event date: Monday, April 15, 2024 - 7:00pm Amy Lin will read from her debut, Here After: A Memoir. Author Carmen Maria Machado has praised the book, saying "How gorgeously Here After tackles the twin specters of grief and survival; a steely, symphonic memoir of unexpected loss--and what (necessarily, unbearably) comes next, and Lauren Groff says "It has been...
Event date: Friday, April 12, 2024 - 7:00pm National Book Foundation â5 Under 35â award-winner Sarah Braunstein will read from her new novel, Bad Animals. She will be joined in conversation by author Rachel Yoder.  "Bad Animals opens with a delightful shock, and then the fun begins. With deft, sly, loving insight into the human animal and its...
Event date: Thursday, April 11, 2024 - 7:00pm In a special event co-sponsored by the UI Obermann Center for Advanced Studies and generously co-sponsored by the UI Office of the Vice President for Research, designer and educator Lesley-Ann Noel will talk about her new book, Design Social Change: Take Action, Work Toward Equity, and Challenge the Status Quo. Noel...
Event date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 - 7:00pm Kevin Koch will read from and share images from his new regional nature book, Midwest Bedrock: The Search for Nature's Soul in America's Heartland. "Kevin Koch's Midwest Bedrock eloquently redefines and reimagines that fuzzy obscure geographic region that outsiders often describe as drive-through or fly-over country.  "What exactly is the...
Event date: Monday, April 8, 2024 - 7:00pm The Ancient Exchanges speaker series presents poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, who will talk about his work. Dan Beachy-Quick's translations from ancient Greek include the lyric collection Stone Garland and The Thinking Root, a collection of fragments of early philosophy (both from Milkweed Editions), as well as most recently Wind--Mountain--Oak: The Poems of...
Event date: Sunday, April 7, 2024 - 2:00pm Cellist Janet Horvath will read from her sweeping history of three generations darkened by the long shadow of the Holocaust, The Cello Still Sings - A Generational Story of the Holocaust and of the Transformative Power of Music. The Cello Still Sings received a starred review from...
Saretta Morgan in conversation with Tisa Bryant Event date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024 - 7:00pm Poet Saretta Morgan will read from her new book of poetry from Coffeehouse Press, Alt-Nature, and be joined in conversation by Tisa Bryant.  Alt-Nature was written between 2018 and 2023, while Saretta Morgan lived between the Sonoran and Mojave deserts doing grassroots humanitarian aid...
Event date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 - 7:00pm This graphic biography by Sam Nakahira, developed in consultation with Ruth Asawaâs youngest daughter, Addie Lanier, chronicles the genesis of Asawa as an artistâfrom the horror of Pearl Harbor to her transformative education at Black Mountain College to building her life in San Francisco, where she would...
Join us for a special 5:30 event with the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Alumni Series! Deborah Taffa will read from her new book, Whiskey Tender. She will be joined in conversation by Melissa Febos. "We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold,...
