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UI Libraries Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020)

Thursday, April 8, 2021 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Virtual
Join us for the second reading roundtable with the UI Libraries focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Those who have and have not read the book are welcome as a variety of engagements will be available. Book giveaways will be available at this event as well! UI faculty, staff, and students can go to the following site to attend: https://tinyurl.com/LibraryMinorFeelings. Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all...
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Prairie Lights Virtual - Zoom: Kirsten Ihns & Benjamin Krusling

Thursday, April 1, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
Please join us for a reading and conversation between poets Kirsten Ihns and Benjamin Krusling to celebrate their latest books, sundaey and Glaring. To join this virtual event, register here. Anthony Madrid, author of RHINO says of Kirsten Ihns' sundaey, “What are the poems like? Inventive, capricious, witty, aphoristic. There are bebop parts where what she’s doing is throwing words into a pan slicked with boiling oil and watching ’em explode all over the kitchen…If you set about making your...

Pan Asian Council Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020).

Thursday, March 25, 2021 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Virtual
Pan Asian Council Reading Roundtable focused on bestselling author, Cathy Park Hong’s book Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning(2020). The Pan Asian Council will be leading this first discussion and readings for the text leading up to Cathy Park Hong’s Virtual Keynote on April, 21. Those who have and have not read the book are welcome as a variety of engagements will be available. Book giveaways will be available! UI faculty, staff, and students can go to the following site to attend: htt...
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Provost's Visiting Writer Reading Series: Matthew B. Kelley and Micky Hill

Monday, March 22, 2021 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Virtual
The University of Iowa's English Department is pleased to present a reading with Provost's Postgraduate Visiting Writers Micky Hill and Matthew B. Kelley. Poet Micky Hill, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, is the Provost’s Visiting Writer in poetry at the University of Iowa. Matthew B. Kelley is a writer from Atlanta, GA. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow in fiction. He is currently the Provost’s Visiting...