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Live from Prairie Lights | Bennett Sims
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Award-winning author of A Questionable Shape and White Dialogues, Bennett Sims will read from his new collection Other Minds and Other Stories, published by Two Dollar Radio.

"[Bennett Sims] draws on academia, art, and technology for a superb collection about identity and memory.... Throughout, Sims boldly plays with form, such as in 'Introduction to the Reading of Hegel,' which consists of one paragraph that extends for nearly 30 pages and chronicles an adjunct professor’s self-sabotage as he...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Timmy Straw and Sara Nicholson
Friday, November 10, 2023 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Sara Nicholson will read from April.

"Intimate and expansive, with dazzling wit and music throughout, Nicholson's poems fit the stars, the sun, the trees, and their sap in the same frame."--Michael Andor Brodeur

Sara Nicholson is the author of What the Lyric Is and The Living Method, published by The Song Cave. Her work has appeared in the Chicago Review, Harper's, Poetry, The New York Times, and the Yale Review. In 2018, she was the Holloway Poet-in-Residence at the University of California...

POSTPONED! Reading & Conversation with Professor Elizabeth Willis
Wednesday, November 8, 2023 6:00pm to 7:00pm
English-Philosophy Building

Poet and Professor Elizabeth Willis will be reading from her work and answering questions regarding writing and poetry. To submit questions, visit https://forms.office.com/r/XbP8rXgfxf

Elizabeth Willis’ most recent book is Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her other books of poetry include Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric...

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Kate Christensen and Cody-Rose Clevidence Reading
Sunday, November 5, 2023 8:00pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading with Workshop visiting faculty members, Kate Christensen and Cody-Rose Clevidence.

Cody-Rose Clevidence is the author of Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (Nightboat, 2021), Listen My Friend, This is the Dream I Dreamed Last Night (The Song Cave, 2021), Flung/Throne (Ahsahta, 2018), and BEAST FEAST (Ahsata Press, 2014), as well as several chapbooks (flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). They live in the Arkansas Ozarks. 

Kate Christensen is the author...