Marilynne Robinson will give an in-person Q&A session in the Frank Conroy Reading Room on Friday, April 28, at 10:30 a.m. Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack (2020), a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the PEN...

Workshop Visiting Professor of Poetry Duriel Harris will give a lecture on running a literary journal. Duriel E. Harris is a poet, performer, and sound artist. She is author of three print volumes of poetry, including her most recent, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat, 2017), Drag (2003) and Amnesiac: Poems (2010). Multi-genre works include her one-woman theatrical performance Thingification, as well as Speleology (2011), a video collaboration with artist Scott Rankin. Cofounder of...

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Raven Leilani. Raven Leilani’s work has been published in Granta, The Yale Review, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Conjunctions, The Cut, and New England Review, among other publications. Leilani received her MFA from NYU and was an Axinn Foundation Writer-in-Residence. Luster is her first novel. -- https://us.macmillan.com/author/ravenleilani  To subscribe to a weekly emailing list of Writers' Workshop events, please email iww@uiowa.edu with ...

Please join us with poets Timothy Donnelly and Christine Kwon, who will read from their new poetry!  Timothy Donnelly will read from his fourth collection of poems, Chariot. “If Whitman had had a young kid and a Brooklyn apartment, too many bills, and stack of takeout menus in the top drawer of his Ikea desk, he would have written these poems...” — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker Timothy Donnelly is the author of The Problem of the Many (Wave, 2019); The Cloud Corporation (Wave, 2010; Picador...