Are you a writer that is interested in improving your skills or connecting with other local writers? Have you ever wondered what it might be like to participate in a workshop at the world-renowned Iowa Writers' Workshop? Molly Biskupic from the Iowa Writers' Workshop will join us at the Public Library to provide a workshop experience right here in Lisbon!  Attendees are invited to bring or submit a short sample of your work to share with the group so that everyone can get a feel for each other...

Iowa Writers’ Workshop Poetry alum Alyssa Perry and Rescue Press poet Daisy Atterbury will read from their new books, Oily Doily, and The Kármán Line. Razor-edged, stagger-rhymed, Oily Doily is a diamond saw. Its music is intricate and remorseless as its subject: empire, centuries of bourgeois kitsch, 80s flicks, tech strip - mining our curiosity, sympathy, and desire for solidarity. Miraculously, the poetry work doesn’t fall for despair but offers clarity within clarity, glittering surfaces...