Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Fall Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...

Join us for a reading with award-winning author of Bliss Montage and Severance, Ling Ma. Books will be available for purchase at this event.

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Poetry professor Elizabeth Willis in celebration of the launch of her latest book, Liontaming in America. Elizabeth Willis' previous books of poetry include Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006); Turneresque (Bu...

What if everyone in the community used art to connect with nature? Could this inspire positive changes? Prompt for the Planet: Community Promises is a free community event that will highlight local artists whose performances inspire action that leads to big changes and bring people together. This free event draws inspiration from U.S. Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman’s Prompt for the Planet, originally conceived in 2018 when University of Iowa student, Shannon Nolan and her instructor David...