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Live from Prairie Lights | Mary Allen in Conversation with Patricia Foster
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Please join us for a reading and conversation with Mary Allen to celebrate the release of her new book The Deep Limitless Air: A Memoir in Pieces. She will be joined in conversation by Patricia Foster.

Mary Allen is a memoir and fiction writer whose themes are spiritual and psychological healing, love, the nature of life and death, and the ways our states of consciousness intersect with our experience of reality. Her writing — and broad range of writing topics — reflect her belief that the...

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Writers of Color Reading Series
Friday, May 13, 2022 7:00pm
MERGE

Featuring: Yasmin Majeed, Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi, Hajar Hussaini, Tramaine Suubi, Okwudili Nebeolisa, and more
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Free & open to the public!
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The Writers of Color Reading Series was created by authors T. Geronimo Johnson and Andre Perry in 2015. The series offers a dedicated presentation space in Iowa City for local Black, Indigenous, and other writers of color who are undergraduates, MFAs, or long-term residents. The series occurs as a live event during the...

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Diptych Spring 2022 Reading
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:00pm
Visual Arts Building

DIPTYCH

Join us Thursday, May 12 at 7 p.m. for Diptych, the biannual reading event from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop & UI Center for the Book that highlights the relationships between visual poetry and artists books.

This Spring's reading event will take place in the Atrium of the Visual Arts Building, amidst an installation of work from current and past readers. There will be a small table set up with work available for purchase.

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Sidekick Coffee & Books | Conversation & Signing with Ash Davidson
Thursday, May 12, 2022 7:00pm
Sidekick Coffee & Books

Join Ash Davidson & Virginia Hayes for a conversation & signing with the release of Damnation Spring in paperback! Pre-order your copy in paperback in the ticket link today! Purchase is NOT required to attend the event.
Ash Davidson was born in Arcata, California, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her work has been supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and MacDowell. She lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Virginia Hayes has been working in the Iowa City area as an arborist for eight...