Writers’ Workshop graduates Steven Duong and Tramaine Suubi will read from their new poetry collections: At the End of the World There Is a Pond, and Phases. Steven Duong will read from At the End of the World There Is a Pond. “In poems striking, humorous, and assured, Steven Duong turns and turns the world over again until we are seen anew. . . . The velocity and music of this book will steady you far into your days.” —Major Jackson "Duong’s poetry is surprising and alive, expansive in its...

Schumann Quartet plays Beethoven Tuesday, Feb. 18 | 1 p.m. Presented by Hancher and the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program This event is featured in Iowa City's Free Week Winter Arts & Culture Festival. Presented by X Marks the Arts, Free Week showcases a celebration of music, theater, film, literature, visual arts, and more.  FREE & Open to the Public | Limited Capacity   During the hour-long free concert, the Schumann Quartet will be playing excerpts from their upcoming...

Jack Saebyok Jung studied at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop as a Truman Capote Fellow. He is the author of Hocus Pocus Bogus Locus, forthcoming from Black Square Editions in March 2025, and a co-translator of Yi Sang: Selected Works (Wave Books, 2020), which received the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work in 2020. His poetry and translations have appeared in Washington Square Review, Bennington Review, BOMB Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Th...

Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art for our Sundays with the Docents tour where Stanley docents create unique tours to share with our audiences throughout the year. In the Art by Indigenous Americans tour, Docent David Duer will look at some of the ways Native artists examine and express their cultural heritage. The Muscogee poet and musician (and former U.S. poet laureate) Joy Harjo, in her poem “Conflict Resolutions for Holy Beings,” offers words that serve as our tour theme: “Recognize...