Prairie Lights presented an international reading on July 18 to showcase not just writers from all around the globe but also the University of Iowa International Writing Program. With fiction writers,...
On the evening of July 15, Prairie Lights hosted a reading to memorialize the late poet James Tate, who died in 2015 — a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and instructor at the University of Iowa.
Tate...
Iowa City is famous for its literary community, as only a UNESCO City of Literature can be. Author Lucy Ives dissects this community in her new novel, Loudermilk, which explores the lives of writers and...
Salvatore Scibona has a letter written over his typewriter from fellow writer Andrew Meredith. It reads, “If we sit at the desk with enough openness, enough love, enough coffee, then we will have good...
“My poems are about the absurdity of life. It’s constantly breaking down and not making sense.”
Chuck Miller said this as he shared the story of his life, and the hardships he’s endured, on Tuesday...
