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Live from Prairie Lights | Readings from translations of the work of Kim Hyesoon: Jack Saebyok Jung for 'Lady No' & Cindy Juyoung Ok for 'The Hell of That Star'  promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Readings from translations of the work of Kim Hyesoon: Jack Saebyok Jung for 'Lady No' & Cindy Juyoung Ok for 'The Hell of That Star'
Friday, April 24, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Visiting Professor of the Iowa Writers' Workshop Jack Saebyok Jung will read from his new translation of Kim Hyesoon's Lady No, and Cindy Juyoung Ok will read from her new translation of Hyesoon's The Hell of That Star.

Lady No is described by publisher Ecco Press as the following:

"In March 2014, Kim Hyesoon, the grand dame of contemporary Korean poetry, began to post anonymously on the online blog of Munhakdongne, a major South Korean publisher. Rather than use her own name, Kim Hyesoon’s chosen...

Book Reading by Keiichiro Hirano promotional image
Book Reading by Keiichiro Hirano
Thursday, April 23, 2026 5:00pm to 6:15pm
University Capitol Centre
Join the University of Iowa (UI) Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, an International Programs affinity group, for a special event with acclaimed Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano.
Live from Prairie Lights | Rebecca Lehmann in conversation with Paige Lewis - 'The Beheading Game' promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Rebecca Lehmann in conversation with Paige Lewis - 'The Beheading Game'
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Rebecca Lehmann will read from her new novel, The Beheading Game, and will be joined in conversation with Paige Lewis. The Beheading Game "begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn’s beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees" and continues with "Anne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour" (penguin...

Live from Prairie Lights | Carrie Olivia Adams & Nathan Hoks in conversation with Danielle Wheeler  promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Carrie Olivia Adams & Nathan Hoks in conversation with Danielle Wheeler
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Carrie Olivia Adams will read from her new poetry collection, The Book of Marys and Glaciers, and Nathan Hoks will read from his new paperback edition of his poetry collection, Moony Days of Being. They will be joined in conversation with Danielle Wheeler.

Described by Tupelo Press as a collection of poems that "engag[e] with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more," The Book of Marys and Glaciers is praised by Marisa Siegel of The Rumpus, who says, "Adams challenges her...