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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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...

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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Derek (DK) Nnuro will read from his debut novel, What Napoleon Could Not Do, followed by a conversation with esteemed poet and educator Tameka Cage Conley about the book and its themes.

What Napoleon Could Not Do is a gripping novel in which America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa. 

Derek (DK) Nnuro is a Ghanaian-born writer and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught novel writing at the University of Iowa and...