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. 

Please join Tracie Morris and Tom Drury for a reading in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm on Wednesday, February 20th.

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 galleries and museums, including the Whitney...

For this Headroom Screening Series event, Cecilia Vicuña, a Spring 2019 Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present her film, the "documentary poem" Kon Kon, and discuss it afterwards.

In the documentary poem, Cecilia returns to Con Con beach, the birthplace of her art in Chile, where the sea is dying and an ancient tradition is being wiped out. Con Con, facing Aconcagua the tallest mountain in the Western hemisphere, has a cultural heritage going back thousands of years. Over...