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Kevin Brockmeier and Tracie Morris
Sunday, November 10, 2019 8:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library

Writers’ Workshop visiting faculty members, Tracie Morris and Kevin Brockmeier, will read from their work on Sunday, November 10th in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm.

Tracie Morris is a writer, sound poet, critic, scholar, bandleader, actor and multimedia performer. She is the author of Intermission, Chap-T-her Won, handholding: 5 kinds, Rhyme Scheme, and was co-editor, with Charles Bernstein, of BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing. Her sound installations have been presented at...

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Live from Prairie Lights: Carmen Maria Machado in conversation with Garth Greenwell
Saturday, November 9, 2019 4:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Writers’ Workshop graduate Carmen Maria Machado will read from In the Dream House, published by Graywolf Press. Author Garth Greenwell will join her to talk about the book.   “Wrought with alarming premonition, propulsive rhythm, and a trove of folkloric archetypes, Machado’s genre-crushing memoir is a meditation on the eclipse of knowledge and intuition by the narcotic light of a destructive bond that feels like love.”—Melissa Broder

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other...

Live from Prairie Lights: Ben Percy
Friday, November 8, 2019 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Benjamin Percy will read from Suicide Woods, published by Graywolf Press.  "An addictive mix of gritty crime fiction and otherworldly horror. . . . Percy's prose is exacting, finely tuning the atmospherics that give the collection such an eerie overall feeling. . . . Suicide Woods is a testament to Percy's skill as a writer. He takes no shortcuts in eliciting thrills. The collection is by turns provocative and terrifying."--Shelf Awareness

Benjamin Percy is the author of the werewolf novel Red...

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Live from Prairie Lights: Marvin Bell
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Marvin Bell, who taught poetry for over forty years at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and was Iowa's first poet laureate, will read from Incarnate: The Collected Dead Man Poems.

"Marvin Bell's Dead Man poems should close out any anthology of the twentieth century and open any anthology of this new century's work. They change the game. They insist that we pay a new and different kind of attention." —The Georgia Review

Marvin Bell was born in New York City in 1937 and raised in rural...