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...

Please join us for a reading from Yi Sang: Selected Works with one of its translators, poet Jack Jung, as well as a conversation with author Alexander Chee.

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Formally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang’s works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of world literature in the early twentieth century and the political upheaval of 1930s Japanese occupied Korea. While his life ended prematurely at the age of twenty-seven, Yi Sang’s work...

Please join Prairie Lights and the Iowa City Book Festival for an exciting reading with Marilynne Robinson, in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang.

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Marilynne Robinson's new novel, Jack, is a New York Times Bestseller. Casey Cep of The New Yorker, says of the book, "Jack is the fourth novel in Robinson’s Gilead series, an intergenerational saga of race, religion, family, and forgiveness centered on a small Iowa town. But it is not accurate to call it a...

Please join us on the lawn of the Dey House/ Glenn Schaeffer Library for a literary grove tree planting event on Friday, 10/23 at 4:15pm. 

The trees to be planted are: