This concert is free and open to the public. The Ariel Quartet and Orion Weiss concert and residency has been supported in part by generous support from the Barbara Price Piano and Chamber Music Fund.Distinguished by its virtuosity, probing musical insight, and impassioned, fiery performances, the Ariel Quartet has garnered critical praise worldwide for more than twenty years. Formed when the members were just teenagers studying at the Jerusalem Academy Middle School of Music and Dance in Israel...

Simone White will read in the Frank Conroy Reading Room in Glenn Schaeffer Library.Simone White is the author of or, on being the other woman (Duke University Press, 2022), Dear Angel of Death (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018), Of Being Dispersed (Futurepoem, 2016), and House Envy of All the World (Factory School, 2010), the poetry chapbook, Unrest (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and the collaborative poem/painting chapbook, Dolly (with Kim Thomas) (Q Ave, 2008). Her poetry and prose have been featured...

Writers' Workshop alumni Karla Kelsey and Rebecca Lehmann will read from their latest books of poetry.Poet Karla Kelsey will read from her newest book, Transcendental Factory: For Mina Loy. Described as a "lyric-documentary rendezvous with iconoclastic writer and visual artist Mina Loy (1882–1966)" (karlakelsey.com), Transcendental Factory is praised by writer Danielle Dutton as "a brilliant novel from inside and outside Mina Loy—a novel that is also a poem, a dictionary, a historical compendium...

Please join us at 4:30 p.m. to commemorate the life of Connie Brothers, Program Associate of the Writers' Workshop from 1974-2019 and friend of Prairie Lights bookstore.Speakers will include: Maggie Conroy, David Hamilton, Rachel McPherson, Jan Weissmiller, Pam Willard and Kevin Zou.[Event recording available for viewing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9OfzKMzTD8 ]To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please fill in the linked form or email iww@uiowa.edu with ...