Join Joy Harjo (78MFA), the current U.S. Poet Laureate and the first Native American to hold the position.

An internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Harjo has written nine books of poetry, several plays and children’s books, and a memoir. The Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate has received numerous honors, including the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Poets & Writers’ Jackson Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets Wallace Stevens Award...

As part of the Oxford Studies program, Emory University in Atlanta, GA will host Iowa Writers' Workshop Director, Lan Samantha Chang online on November 9 at 6:30 P.M. CST. Join via Zoom: https://emory.zoom.us/s/694929263

Lan Samantha Chang’s new novel, The Family Chao, will be published by W.W. Norton in 2022. She is the author of two previous novels, All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, and a story collection, Hunger. Samantha’s short stories have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly...

This meeting will be hosted by Derek Nnuro, associate writer (Stanley Museum of Art)

Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (2016)

Stanley Reads is hosted by Kimberly Datchuk, curator of learning & engagement and presented in partnership with Prairie Lights Books.

Register for Stanley Reads at https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3VR83aPIweoUmHz. Once registered, you will receive invitations to all Stanley Reads events.

Registration will cut off at noon the Friday...

Join Writers @ Grinnell with Prairie Lights Bookstore for a virtual event celebrating the publication of two recent books of poetry: Republican Fathers  (Nine Mile Books)  by  Ralph James Savarese and Old Horse, What Is to be Done? (Tiger Bark Press) by Stephen Kuusisto. Together they've written a book titled Someone Falls Overboard: Talking through Poems, which will be out in 2021. They'll each read for about 15 minutes and then have a conversation about poetry, politics, disability, and...