Please join us for a lecture by Christopher Castellani in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 1 p.m. on Friday, March 1st

Christopher Castellani is the author of A Kiss from Maddalena, The Saint of Lost Things, and All This Talk of Love and a book on writing, The Art of Perspective. He is the son of Italian immigrants, a Guggenheim fellow, and the artistic director of Grub Street writing center. He lives in Boston.

Writers’ Workshop graduate Mark Mayer will read from The Aerialists.

"A dazzling collection filled with characters who evoke, in their flawed humanity, the strange, sorrowful and ever shimmering world of the circus. Mayer's bittersweet stories are playful, haunting and wonderfully inventive. Read them and be transported." —Mona Awad

Mark Mayer’s stories have appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Colorado Review, and Mid-American Review, and a story from The Aerialists is featured in American Short...

Bernadette Mayer will read her poetry, Wednesday, February 27 at 6 pm in the Frank Conroy Reading Room.

Bernadette Mayer is the author of over twenty-seven collections of poetry and prose, most recently Works and Days (2016), Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (2015) and The Helens of Troy (2013), as well as countless chapbooks and artist-books. She is widely known for her Sonnets, her long-form works Memory, Studying Hunger, and Midwinter Day, as well...

The Iowa Translation Workshop and Song Bridge Press are co-sponsoring an exciting reading and roundtable on Uruguayan Women poets, featuring leading literary translators who work with Uruguayan poets.