Please join us in your own cozy home for a virtual reading celebrating issue 51/2! Hosted by editor Lynne Nugent, the evening will feature guest editor Tracie Morris and poets from her portfolio on poetic Black resiliency; fiction writer Dessa; and nonfiction writer Steffan Triplett. Come in to Prairie Lights the week before or after the virtual celebration to pick up a copy of TIR, and tucked inside will be a special commemorative bookmark of a poem by Tracie Morris.

Tracie Morris was the...

For the first event of Mic Check Poetry Fest, join us for this moderated discussion between two poetry performance artists as they present their work and share insights into the world of slam poetry. With Tracie Morris, Professor at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and Steven Willis, recent MFA in Poetry from the Writers’ Workshop, this event offers a unique look into the history and growth of spoken word poetry, as well as its changing role in the academy.

Tracie Morris (MFA, Poetry...

The Writers' Workshop presents an in-person and virtual reading with Gish Jen.

Virtual attendees may join us via Zoom.

Gish Jen has published short work in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and dozens of other periodicals, anthologies and textbooks. Her work has been chosen for The Best American Short Stories five times, including The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike. Nominated for a National Book Critics’ Circle Award, her work was featured in a PBS American...

Please join with Lauren Haldeman who will talk about and show images from her book, Team Photograph. She will be joined in conversation by Kaveh Akbar. In her extraordinary graphic novel—which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir—Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed...