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Book Reading by Keiichiro Hirano
Thursday, April 23, 2026 5:00pm to 6:15pm
University Capitol Centre
Join the University of Iowa (UI) Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, an International Programs affinity group, for a special event with acclaimed Japanese author Keiichiro Hirano.
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Live from Prairie Lights | Rebecca Lehmann in conversation with Paige Lewis - 'The Beheading Game'
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Rebecca Lehmann will read from her new novel, The Beheading Game, and will be joined in conversation with Paige Lewis. The Beheading Game "begins in the hours after Anne Boleyn’s beheading, when she wakes to find herself unceremoniously laid to rest in a makeshift coffin, her head wrapped in linen at her knees" and continues with "Anne escapes the Tower of London, sews her head back on, then sets out on a quest to kill Henry VIII before he can marry her own lady-in-waiting Jane Seymour" (penguin...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Carrie Olivia Adams & Nathan Hoks in conversation with Danielle Wheeler
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Carrie Olivia Adams will read from her new poetry collection, The Book of Marys and Glaciers, and Nathan Hoks will read from his new paperback edition of his poetry collection, Moony Days of Being. They will be joined in conversation with Danielle Wheeler.

Described by Tupelo Press as a collection of poems that "engag[e] with deserts, consumerism, Alaskan ice, religious icons, and more," The Book of Marys and Glaciers is praised by Marisa Siegel of The Rumpus, who says, "Adams challenges her...

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Live from Prairie Lights | Margaret LeMay - 'sample.spring'
Sunday, April 19, 2026 4:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

Margaret LeMay will read from her new poetry chapbook, sample.spring. Prairie Lights owner and poet Jan Weissmiller says this about sample.spring:

"In these spare, acutely observant poems, Margaret LeMay describes the stress of living in a world so endangered it is hard to explain to a child. Her internal dialogue, with its syntax of sadness, is perfectly placed. The way the natural world enters this dialogue is imagistically exact and exacting. The poet’s perception expresses an existential...