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A Reading with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Jericho Brown promotional image
A Reading with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Jericho Brown
Thursday, February 23, 2023 8:00pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Jericho Brown.

From https://www.jerichobrown.com/:

"Jericho Brown is author of the The Tradition (Copper Canyon 2019), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and he is the winner of the Whiting Award. Brown’s first book, Please (New Issues 2008), won the American...

Live from Prairie Lights | Caryl Pagel and Erika Meitner promotional image
Live from Prairie Lights | Caryl Pagel and Erika Meitner
Friday, February 17, 2023 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Please join us for a special event co-sponsored by the Magid Writing Center at the University of Iowa with poets Erika Meitner and Caryl Pagel!

Erika Meitner will read from Useful Junk. “Erika Meitner’s Useful Junk is composed of poems that are tragicomic-erotic-nostalgic with a twist of existential dread and a cherry of wit on top. Meitner’s speaker is most comfortable, or most able to endure her discomfort, when she’s on the move, in airport terminals and on subway platforms, between the...

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The Harlem Quartet
Thursday, February 16, 2023 4:30pm
Dey House

CANCELED

In collaboration with the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, The Writers' Workshop is pleased to present The Harlem Quartet, in concert in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Glenn Schaeffer Library/Dey House on Feb. 16 at 4:30 p.m.

from http://harlemquartet.com/the-harlem-quartet/:

"New York-based Harlem Quartet, currently quartet-in-residence at the John J. Cali School of Music and the Royal College of Music in London, has been praised for its “panache” by The New...

Canceled
Q & A with Nikky Finney promotional image
Q & A with Nikky Finney
Friday, February 10, 2023 1:30pm
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop and Hancher Auditorium present a Q & A session with Nikky Finney, celebrated poet and author of Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry.

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