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Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest
Saturday, November 8 to Friday, November 14, 2025 (all day)
Virtual
Submit your milestone haiku by Nov. 14!
Live from Prairie Lights | Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Sara Gilmore and Alicia Wright
Friday, November 7, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Writers' Workshop graduate Sara Gilmore will read from her newest poetry collection, The Green Lives, and poet Alicia Wright will read from her newest poetry collection, You're Called by the Same Sound.

NYU Press describes The Green Lives as "[finding] joy in paradoxes from which felt sense can expand." Poet m.s. RedCherries praises The Green Lives as "an intuitive, nearly prescient, voice [that] reads as if it were a whisper or hymn," while Margaret Ross says: "These poems churn with Heraclitean...

Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest promotional image
Write Now Hawkeye Haiku Contest
Friday, November 7 to Friday, November 14, 2025 (all day)
Virtual
Submit your milestone haiku by Nov. 14!
Live from Prairie Lights | Emily Wilson - 'Burnt Mountain' promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Emily Wilson - 'Burnt Mountain'
Thursday, November 6, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate Emily Wilson will read from her newest poetry collection, Burnt Mountain. University of Iowa Press describes Burnt Mountain as "set on the rugged slopes of an inauspicious mountain, densely wooded, long ago scoured by fire, and marked by generations of human presence... Fiercely attuned to the match and mismatch between mind and mountain — the ways in which the natural and the human construct and deconstruct each other in the contested realms of art, wilderness...