Poets Julie Hanson and Mark Rahe will read from their latest books The Audible and the Evident and GRAVITY WELL at the Iowa City Public Library. 

Marc Rahe received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His poems have appeared in Gutcult, iO: A Journal of New American Poetry, jubilat, notnostrums, Painted Bride Quarterly, Petri Press, Sixth Finch, and other literary journals. Marc lives in Iowa City and works for a human service agency.

Julie Hanson is the author of Unbeknownst, an Iowa...

Stanley Reads continues this fall with Luis Alberto Urrea’s National Best Seller The House of Broken Angels (2018).

The novel follows the De La Cruz family across two days and through life and death: the matriarch’s funeral and the patriarch’s birthday celebration. Urrea weaves a tale of family mythology, promises, and betrayals that took the De La Cruzes from La Paz, Mexico to San Diego, California. Derek Nnuro, associate curator of special projects, and Amanda Lensing, Senior Living...

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Geoffrey Hilsabeck to celebrate the release of American Vaudeville. He will be joined in conversation by Suzanne Buffam.

To join this virtual event, register here.

M. Alison Kibler, the author of Censoring Racial Ridicule, says of the book, “Hilsabeck recounts the often bizarre details of vaudeville, the most popular live entertainment in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and, more importantly, he evokes the feeling of...

Join the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library on Tuesday, October 12 at 6pm Central Time/ 7pm Eastern Time) for a talk about the legendary Kurt Vonnegut, as author Tom Roston presents his new book, The Writer's Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five.

Roston will discuss The Writer's Crusade, and the role of trauma in war writing, with Iraq war veteran and novelist Matt Gallagher and author, teacher and one-time student of Vonnegut's at the Iowa Writers Workshop, Suzanne...