The International Writing Program (IWP) presents prize-winning authors Armen of Armenia, Dora Malech, Asli Perker, and Yuriy Serebriansky, current instructors for the IWP Between the Lines youth writing and cultural exchange session. Join us at Prairie Lights for a reading of their work!

In Celebration of the release this month of James Tate’s posthumous collection of poems, The Government Lake, Iowa City poets and poetry-lovers will read from his work. James Tate was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1943. He attended The Iowa Writers’ Workshop in the 1960’s where he wrote his highly acclaimed first collection of poems, The Lost Pilot, which won the prestigious Yale Younger Poetry Award when Tate was only 22 years old. He went on to publish seventeen books of poetry, including...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Claire Lombardo will read from The Most Fun We Ever Had, a multi-generational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple match wits, harbor grudges, and recklessly ignite old rivalries until a long-buried secret threatens to shatter the lives they've built. "Everything about this brilliant debut cuts deep: the humor, the wisdom, the pathos. Claire Lombardo writes like she's been doing it for a hundred years, and like she's been alive for a...

Writers' Workshop summer faculty member Amanda Nadelberg will read from Songs from a Mountain. "Amanda Nadelberg's poetry resembles a city where all kinds of things are happening at once, some of them funny and others pretty scary— a dizzying achievement that rings out loud and precise and clear." —John Ashbery Nadelberg is also the author of Bright Brave Phenomena and Isa the Truck Named Isadore, winner of the Slope Editions Book Prize. She was selected as one of Poetry Society of America's...