Writers' Workshop graduate Stephen Haven will read from his newest poetry collection, The Flight from Meaning, and poet Rosa Lane will read from her newest collection, Called Back.

The Flight from Meaning is described by publisher Slant Books as poems that "have been shaped by — and serve as responses to — an American predilection for violence, spectacle, and distraction – the ways they flatten and diminish our experience of the world." Andrew Hudgins, author of Saints & Strangers and The Never...

Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / they) is a poet and country musician, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011). Julian plays with the band Juan & the Pines, and their first full-length solo album It’s Okay Honey came out in 2023. Julian was the 2023–2024 Bagley Wright lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of the 2020 Cy Twombly Award for Poetry. Its poems were recently...

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 and...

Tom Drury is the author of Pacific, The End of Vandalism, Hunts in Dreams, The Driftless Area, and The Black Brook. His novels have been translated into Spanish, German, and French. His essays and short fiction have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Harper’s, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, the Mississippi Review, and Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. In 2000-2001 he was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Bennett Sims is the author of the novel A...