Dr. Mgbechi Erondu of Stanford Medicine will be speaking at Iowa's Fall 2024 Medicine and Humanities Celebration on Monday, Sept. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Medical Educational Research Facility (MERF) Auditorium. This is the second in a series of events striving to highlight the powerful relationship between great literature and great medicine, with the first being Dr. Liana Meffert's Humanities in Medicine lecture last Fall.

Speaker Info:

Mgbechi Erondu, MD, MFA, graduated from Princeton...

Please join us for the International Writing Program Sunday Afternoon Reading Series with Yassin Adnan (Morocco), Lisa Allen-Agostini (Trinidad and Tobago), Victoria Sanchez (USA) 

Yassin Adnan is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and television presenter. He is the author of six poetry collections, three short story collections, one novel, and one book about travel. The novel, Hot Maroc, was published in English by Syracuse University Press in 2021. Adnan serves as president of the Marrakech...

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...

Join us for a reading with award-winning author of Bliss Montage and Severance, Ling Ma. Books will be available for purchase at this event.