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Live from Prairie Lights: Lisa Wells and Joshua Marie Wilkinson

Thursday, October 18, 2018 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Lisa Wells and Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read from their recent poetry collections. Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Lisa Wells will read from The Fix, selected by Brenda Shaughnessy for the 2017 Iowa Poetry Prize. “Line by line, Wells delivers a brilliant, taut, terrifying debut that renders the parts of the inner and outer world for which there is no real cure.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review Joshua Marie Wilkinson will read from Meadow Slasher, the fourth book in his No Volta pentalogy...
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Truman Capote Award Ceremony: Robert Hass

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 4:00pm
Old Capitol Museum
Former U.S. Poet-Laureate and Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Hass is this year’s winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin. He was selected for his 2017 book, A Little Book on Form: An Exploration Into the Formal Imagination of Poetry. With a $30,000 cash prize, the Truman Capote Award is the largest annual cash prize in English-language literary criticism. Hass is one of contemporary American poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices and has...

Live from Prairie Lights: Abby Geni and Jac Jemc

Sunday, October 14, 2018 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
International Writing Program (IWP) Prairie Lights Reading Series promotional image

International Writing Program (IWP) Prairie Lights Reading Series

Sunday, October 14, 2018 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Sundays this fall: The International Writing Program (IWP) and UI MFA writing programs take over the 2nd floor of Prairie Lights – grab a glass of wine or a fancy soda and settle in for an hour of highlights from their best work! Reading Oct. 14: Jorrell Watkins (Brotha Jorrell) is an educator from Richmond, VA. He earned his B.A from Hampshire College, has studied playwriting at the Voices of Our Nations (VONA) Writers' Workshop, and poetry at the 2018 VQR Writers' Conference. He served as...