Othuke Umukoro will read from his debut poetry collection, Fenestration, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Diane Seuss as the winner of the 2024 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, and will be in conversation with Writers' Workshop graduate Reyumeh Ejue. Tracie Morris says of Fenestration, “Othuke’s heart-centric new work...is filled with tender poems of discovery. They stay with the reader long after the end of a page, and the book. The strength of these poems is in the refined delicacy of...

Writers' Workshop and Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program graduate Jen Percy will read from her newest book, Girls Play Dead, and will be joined in conversation with former Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program professor Kerry Howley. Girls Play Dead is described as "a landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and pervasive issues of our time — sexual violence ... blending investigative reportage and memoir to explore the misunderstood ways women survive and forever carry trauma ... Since her...

Shane McCrae is the author of several books of poetry, including In the Language of My Captor, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award; Sometimes I Never Suffered, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize; and his most recent collection, The Many Hundreds of the Scent. McCrae is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a Lannan Literary Award, and a Guggenheim...