THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature.

This week’s book is The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett.

This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.

*** This event has been canceled. We hope to reschedule these poets in the Fall***

Writers’ Workshop Poetry alums Sarah London and Rebecca Lehmann will read from Upkeep and Ringer.

Poetry editor of the Woven Tale Press, Sara London will read from Upkeep. 

“I greatly admire how her understanding of elegy is in tension with her humor and essential hopefulness...her work embodies what Seamus Heaney once called ‘the steadfastness of speech articulation,’ in which her care for language is...

Former Director of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, Robin Hemley will read from his new book, Borderline Citizen. In Borderline Citizen Hemley wrestles with what it means to be a citizen of the world, taking readers on a singular journey through the hinterlands of national identity.  "Robin Hemley has traveled to more countries than just about anyone I know, and along the way he's collected vital observations on the tragic absurdity of nationalism and the implicit violence of a world...

THE WORLD IS ENDING! Again. Doomsdayers and apocalyptic prophets have warned of coming calamity for millennia. Still, humanity persists. This book club explores world endings in literature.

This week’s book is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.

This UI Stanley Museum of Art program is graciously hosted in partnership with Public Space One.