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Marilynne Robinson Q&A

Thursday, May 8, 2025 2:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library
Marilynne Robinson will give a Q&A.Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020), a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson’s nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things (2015), When I...
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Live from Prairie Lights | Rawaan Alkhatib in conv w/Carmen Maria Machado & Rachel Yoder 'Hot Date! Sweet and Savory Recipes, From Party Food to Everyday Feasts'

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Iowa Writers' Workshop alum Rawaan Alkhatib will be joined in conversation with fellow Writers' Workshop alums Carmen Maria Machado and Rachel Yoder to talk about food, books, bodies, and her new book: Hot Date!: Sweet & Savory Recipes Celebrating the Date, from Party Food to Everyday Feasts. Described from Alkhatib's publisher, Chronicle Books, as "The first comprehensive cookbook on an ancient superfood and the cultures that revere it," Hot Date! features "99 mouthwatering, date-centered...
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Art & Write Night

Friday, May 2, 2025 6:00pm to 8:00pm
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History
NOTE: The April 4th occurrence in this series will move to the Old Capitol Museum for a very special Art & Write Night!Join the long, rich, historical tradition of artists creating in our spaces.Professional, aspiring, and amateur artists alike, make our museum your muse. The return of this popular program series welcomes guests into the Museum of Natural History's magical gallery spaces after-hours to work on sketching or writing projects with other campus and community artists.Tell a friend...
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Write at the Stanley

Sunday, April 27, 2025 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester!Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece.Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...