The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with D.A. Powell. D. A. Powell's books include Cocktails (Graywolf, 2004) and Chronic (Graywolf, 2009), both finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry, and Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf, 2012), winner of the 2013 Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. Powell's awards include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, Kingsley Tufts Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, and the California Book Award.1...

Join us with Workshop Director Sam Chang and Workshop professor Margot Livesey for a reading and discussion of Chang’s Hunger: A Novella and Stories, which has just been reissued by W.W. Norton for the 25th anniversary of its publication. Chang wrote Hunger when she was a student at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Livesey was her thesis advisor. A powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger illuminates the lives of first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Writers' Workshop Professor of Poetry, James Galvin. James Galvin has published eight books of poems, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His new and collected poems, Resurrection Update (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and the Poet's Prize. His poetry collection, God's Mistress, was a National Poetry Series winner. James...

Join Robyn Schiff as she reads from her newest release Information Desk, a book-length poem set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The New York Review of Books calls Information Desk “An effluvial rush of memory, desire, data, and metaphor . . . It’s bracing to encounter a mind so voracious, so unapologetic in its intelligence.”  Robyn Schiff is the author of four poetry collections, Worth, Revolver, A Woman of Property, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and most...