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Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer: Kelly Link

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:00pm
Virtual
The Writers' Workshop presents a reading by Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Kelly Link, in conversation with Writers' Workshop alumnus, Kevin Brockmeier. Kelly Link is the author of the collections Stranger Things Happen, Magic for Beginners, Pretty Monsters, and Get in Trouble. Her short stories have been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Best American Short Stories, and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow and has received a grant from the...

Virtual Book Club: The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories

Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Virtual
The Chicago and New York Metro Iowa Clubs are hosting an interactive discussion of The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories, a recent release by Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Danielle Evans (06MFA). Register Today! Evans, an Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, is widely acclaimed for her blisteringly smart voice and X-ray insights into complex human relationships. With her most recent release, Evans zooms in on particular moments and relationships in her characters’ lives in...

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...