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- Barlen Pyamootoo and Chan Chi Tak readings, The University of Iowa, September 16, 2012
- Pyamootoo, Barlen; Tak, Chan Chi
- 2012-09-16
- Kevin Kopelson reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sept. 17, 2012
- Kopelson, Kevin, 1960-
- 2012-09-17
- University of Iowa English professor Kevin Kopelson read from his memoir, Confessions of a Plagiarist. “This is as painful and thoughtful as a great confessional essay can be, but it also has a quality I haven't seen before: a clenched-jaw...
- Jenny Zhang and Zachary Schomburg reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 18, 2012
- Zhang, Jenny; Schomburg, Zachary, 1977-
- 2012-09-18
- University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Jenny Zhang will be joined by Zach Schomburg to read at Prairie Lights Books. Zhang’s first collection is Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, of which Elizabeth Robinson wrote, “This book brings to mind a...
- Hisham Matar reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 19, 2012
- Matar, Hisham, 1970-
- 2012-09-19
- Celebrated fiction writer Hisham Matar, who is based in London, reads from his most recent novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance. While Matar claims that the new novel is not autobiographical, it echoes formative experiences in his life. His father,...
- Hisham Matar Q&A, International Writing Program, Sept. 19, 2012
- Matar, Hisham
- 2012-09-19
- Atina Diffley reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 21, 2012
- Diffley, Atina
- 2012-09-21
- Atina Diffley of Organic Farm Works reads from the memoir Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Diffley is the editor and designer of Roger Blobaum’s Organic History Website, and a contributing author of and lead trainer forWholesale...
- Currents of migration, Iowa City Public Library, Sept. 21, 2012
- Holman, Jeffrey Paparoa, 1947-; Lin, Junying, 1960-; Beňová, Jana, 1974-; Chen, Zhide
- 2012-09-21
- Tourism is a birthright. Migration is something else altogether. Those who migrate need something from the country they enter: food, space, safety. They carry along with them: bodies, desires, values. At times, the flow between migrants and the new...
- Christopher Mlalazi and Abdullah Thabit readings, The University of Iowa, September 23, 2012
- Mlalazi, Christopher; Thābit, ʻAbd Allāh
- 2012-09-23
- T. Geronimo Johnson reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 24, 2012
- Johnson, T. Geronimo (Tyrone Geronimo)
- 2012-09-24
- Writer’s Workshop graduate T. Geronimo Johnson reads from his debut novel, Hold It 'Til It Hurts. T. Geronimo Johnson teaches writing at UC Berkeley and has been the recipient of both a Stegner Fellowship and an Iowa Arts Fellowship. Hold It...
- Cole Swenson and Cal Bedient reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 28, 2012
- Swensen, Cole, 1955-; Bedient, Calvin
- 2012-09-28
- Poets Cole Swensen and Cal Bedient, former faculty members of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, read from their new collections of poems. Cole Swensen’s new book is Gravesend, from the New California Poetry series. The poems in...
- Michelle Edwards reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Sep. 29, 2012
- Edwards, Michelle
- 2012-09-29
- Iowa City author, Michelle Edwards reads from her brand new book, Room for the Baby. What's a family to do when there's a baby on the way but no place to put a crib? The big brother-to-be is worried. His mom does have a sewing room, but its every...
- Lucy Fricke and Stephanie Ye readings, The University of Iowa, September 30, 2012
- Fricke, Lucy, 1974-; Ye, Stephanie
- 2012-09-30
- Robyn Schiff and Margaret Ross reading, Oct. 1, 2012, Live from Prairie Lights
- Schiff, Robyn; Ross, Margaret
- 2012-10-01
- Alumna Robyn Schiff, director of undergraduate writing at the University of Iowa, and recent Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Margaret Ross, have new poetry chapbooks from Catenary Press. Schiff is the author of Revolver and Worth, both from the UI...
- James Autry reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Oct. 2, 2012
- Autry, James A.
- 2012-10-02
- Des Moines poet, essayist and businessman James Autry, former executive of the Meredith Corporation, reads from his new book, Choosing Gratitude: Learning to Love the Life You Have. A former Fortune 500 executive, Autry is an author, poet, and...
- Andrew Porter reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Oct. 3, 2012
- Porter, Andrew, 1972-
- 2012-10-03
- Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate, Andrew Porter, reads and discusses excerpts from his award-winning work, "The Theory of Light and Matter". Although The Theory of Light and Matter is an accumulation of short stories, they all contain common links...
- John Koethe reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Oct. 4, 2012
- Koethe, John, 1945-
- 2012-10-04
- Alice Kessler-Harris and William Chafe reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Oct. 4, 2012
- Kessler-Harris, Alice; Chafe, William H.
- 2012-10-04
- Alice Kessler-Harris reads from A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman. A Difficult Woman tells the story of Lillian Hellman, a giant of twentieth-century letters and a groundbreaking figure as one of the most...
- Writing in a landscape, Iowa City Public Library, Oct. 5, 2012
- Khadanovich, Andrėĭ, 1973-; Choi, Myoung Sook; Hae, Yisoo
- 2012-10-05
- Past the blank screen or the white rectangle of paper, some writers' work depends upon, is moored in, a very precise place, whether an ideal physical setting or a seminal inner landscape. A pen draws a place in words. What kinds of landscapes do...
- Rodrigo Garcia Lopes and Gulala Nouri readings, The University of Iowa, October 7, 2012
- Lopes, Rodrigo Garcia, 1965-; Nouri, Gulala
- 2012-10-07
- Marvin Bell and Chris Merrill reading, Live from Prairie Lights, Oct. 8, 2012
- Bell, Marvin, 1937-; Merrill, Christopher
- 2012-10-08
- Poets Marvin Bell and Chris Merrill read from their new book of prose poems, Everything at Once. The book is a correspondence in poetry which was written over a period of fifteen months. Chris Merrill's pieces were composed in foreign countries and...