Text and Textures: Women Creating Books with Bite.

A conversation with Obermann International Fellow Pervin Saket & Diane Vadino led by Devanshi Khetarpal.

Co-sponsored by the International Writing Program and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies.

Free and open to all!

Free Gen for September: Warren C. Longmire

The Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in or passing through Iowa City. Every month a new writer leads a generative workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests.

Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry and PorchLight...

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Rae Armantrout.

Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (2008), Rae Armantrout is a native Californian whose poems are masterful contradictions; according to Robert Creeley, her poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." He adds, "I don’t think there’s another poet writing who is so consummate in authority and yet so generous to her readers and company alike." She has taught writing at UC San Diego for over two decades. Her poems are...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Rae Armantrout.

Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry (2008), Rae Armantrout is a native Californian whose poems are masterful contradictions; according to Robert Creeley, her poems have "a quiet and enabling signature." He adds, "I don’t think there’s another poet writing who is so consummate in authority and yet so generous to her readers and company alike." She has taught writing at UC San Diego for over two decades. Her poems are...