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In a Time of Witness Readings and Reception
Saturday, September 23, 2023 1:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Hear some of the celebrated contributors of In a Time of Witness read from their poems, short stories, and essays with the artworks that inspired their writing.

Reception with light refreshments to follow.

Beyond a traditional museum exhibition catalogue, this unprecedented interdisciplinary project features 31 writers—alumni of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, International Writing Program, and Literary Translation Program—who contributed original literary responses to artworks they chose from the...

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In a Time of Witness Launch Party
Friday, September 22, 2023 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Stanley Museum of Art

Join the Stanley to celebrate the publication of its groundbreaking catalog, In a Time of Witness. The event will be accompanied by light refreshments and live music from Ramin Roshandel and Jean-Francois Charles.

Beyond a traditional museum exhibition catalog, this unprecedented interdisciplinary project features 31 writers—alumni of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, International Writing Program, and Literary Translation Program—who contributed original literary responses to artworks they chose...

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Live from Prairie Lights | A.M. Homes
Friday, September 22, 2023 5:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Join us for a special 5 p.m. event with Writers' Workshop alum A.M. Homes, who will read from her latest novel, The Unfolding. "A dazzling portrait of a family—and a country—in flux. A story about what happens when truths that once seemed self-evident turn out to be neither self-evident nor even true. A.M. Homes has perfectly captured an America as it lurches toward freak-out, and a family as it shreds the lies it's been living by. The Unfolding is hilarious and shocking and heartbreaking and...

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Prairie Lights Online | Josh Barkan in conversation with Andre Dubus III
Monday, September 18, 2023 7:00pm
Virtual

Please join us on Zoom!  Register HERE.

Josh Barkan will read from his new memoir, Wonder Travels. "In this compulsively readable memoir, Josh Barkan does something remarkable: he combines the edifying power of the travelogue with the emotional truth-seeking promise of the memoir, taking us through the streets of New York to the wilds of Mexico, through Madrid and Marrakesh and the mountains of Morocco, through the piazzas of Rome then back to Mexico, all from the point of view of a man trying...