Upcoming Events

Upcoming Events

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Sundays with the Docents | "it's a fine thing" exhibition tour

Sunday, March 16, 2025 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Join us for a tour of the Stanley Museum of Art's latest exhibition, it's a fine thing. This tour is presented in conjunction with the NEA Big Read and will draw connections between the show and Toni Morrison's novel Beloved. . This tour is part of the Sundays with the Docents program where Stanley docents create unique tours to share with our audiences throughout the year. Registration is strongly recommended. Walk-ins are welcome, but tours are capped at 20 participants. Reserve your spot at...
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Write at the Stanley

Sunday, March 23, 2025 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Spring Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry...

Live from Prairie Lights | Mary Jo Bang & Yuki Tanaka: Translation

Monday, March 24, 2025 6:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Mary Jo Bang and Yuki Tanaka will discuss their translation of, A Kiss for the Absolute: Selected Poems of Shuzo Takiguchi, the first book of poems by the great Japanese surrealist to be published in English. Mary Jo Bang is the author of nine books of poems—including A Film in Which I Play Everyone, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, a PEN Voelcker Award, and the Heartland Booksellers Award, A Doll for Throwing, and Elegy which received the National Book Critics Circle Award. She’s...

Karen Joy Fowler: Reading

Monday, March 24, 2025 8:00pm
Glenn Schaeffer Library
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English Department VIEWS: Jonathan Lethem Reading

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 7:00pm to 8:00pm
English-Philosophy Building
English Department VIEWS presents: Jonathan Lethem. Jonathan Lethem’s genre-defying fiction weaves the conventions of noirs, westerns, science fiction, and graphic novels into something both evocative and wholly original. The “bard of Brooklyn” (LitHub) is the author of more than a dozen books — including the much-lauded novels "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude" — and the winner of a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant. Books will be available for purchase.

Live from Prairie Lights | Stuart Nadler

Monday, March 31, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Stuart Nadler will read from his new novel, Rooms for Vanishing. Stuart Nadler is a recipient of the 5 Under 35 Award from the National Book Foundation, and the author of two novels, Wise Men and The Inseparables, and a story collection, The Book of Life. His work has been named a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and an Amazon Book of the Year. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow and a Teaching...

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Live from Prairie Lights | GC Waldrep & Karen An-Hwei Lee

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Poets GC Waldrep and Karen An-Hwei Lee will read from their newest collections, The Beautiful Immunity and The Opening Ritual. GC Waldrep’s The Opening Ritual is described by bestselling author and novelist Kaveh Akbar as “the kind of furiously curious, unabashedly ambitious poetry book I want to show everyone, to prove such books can still be written.” G.C. Waldrep was born and raised in the South. He earned his BA from Harvard University, a PhD in history from Duke University, and an MFA in...
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Live from Prairie Lights | Curtis Sittenfeld in conversation with Lan Samantha Chang

Monday, March 10, 2025 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Bestselling author and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alum Curtis Sittenfeld will read from her newest book and second story collection, Show, Don’t Tell. Publishers’ Weekly describes Show, Don’t Tell as “Witty . . . In one sparkling comedy of manners after another, [Curtis Sittenfeld] documents with a clear and affectionate eye how tiny prejudices and blind spots lead her protagonists astray,” while Kirkus Reviews says, “Sittenfeld’s candor and matter-of-factness make for compellingly intimate and at...

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