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...

Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2024 Selected Poets. This event is live and in-person, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel

Featuring special guest Iowa Student Poet Ambassador Tanya Rastogi.

Presenting Poets:

Lucas Askelson, "Big and Small"

Melodee Bashir, "A December Walk with Leo"

Jacquelyn Bengfort, "The Secret Universal Order...

With his signature crackling prose, literary master Chris Offutt has staked out his own territory in crime fiction, a place of familial allegiances, old wounds, and revenge — the code of the hills. His new book, a sharp, twisty southern noir with echoes of James Sallis and Daniel Woodrell, will force Mick to face up to the way of life he thought he’d escaped.

Chris Offutt is the author of two collections of short stories, three memoirs, and six novels. His books have been translated into 12...

Cinematic Poetics

Poets Hannah Bonner, Julia Anna Morrison, and Perry Janes read from their work and discuss the intersections of film and poetry.

Location: Ulysses Modern Lounge at The Chauncey
2:30–3:30 p.m.
Guests: Hannah Bonner, Julia Anna Morrison, Perry Janes
FREE and open to the public