PorchLight: Rooftop Music and Reading Series
August 28 @ 7:00 pm
Join PorchLight on the deck of Market House in IC’s North Side for an evening of music, poetry, and prose. The Rooftop Music & Reading Series brings together some of Iowa’s most exciting artists for a one-of-a-kind collaborative program. Bring a buddy, date, or come alone. Stay for the lovely views, and good company.
Our August session features:
Jordan Sellergren: Jordan Sellergren is the owner and publisher of Little Village, Iowa’s independent news, arts and culture magazine. Her second full-length album, “Sweet, Bitter Tears” was released in 2020.
Elizabeth Willis: Elizabeth Willis’s most recent book is Liontaming in America (New Directions, 2024). Her previous books of poetry include Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), which was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; Address (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), recipient of the PEN New England/L. L. Winship Prize for Poetry; Meteoric Flowers (Wesleyan University Press, 2006); Turneresque (Burning Deck, 2003); The Human Abstract (Penguin, 1995); and Second Law (Avenue B, 1993). She also writes about contemporary poetry and has edited a volume of essays entitled Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place (University of Iowa Press, 2008).
Mark Levine: Mark Levine is the author of five books of poems, most recently Sound Fury (2022), as well as Debt (1993), Enola Gay (2000), The Wilds (2006), and Travels of Marco (2016), and a book of nonfiction reportage, F5 (2007). A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Debt, with an introduction by Srikanth Reddy, was published in 2018. Recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, an NEA, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton, Levine’s poems have be featured in anthologies including Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize Anthology, American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology, and American Poets in the Twenty-First Century: The New Poetics. Levine has also worked extensively as a long-form journalist for publications including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Outside, New York, and Men’s Journal, and his work has been selected for Best American Magazine Writing and Best American Sports Writing. He is the longtime editor of the Kuhl House Poets series at University of Iowa Press.
Sarah Minor: Dr. Sarah Minor is a writer and interdisciplinary artist and the author of books Slim Confessions: The Universe as a Spider or Spit, winner of the Noemi Press Book Award for Prose (2021), Bright Archive (Rescue Press, 2020), a finalist for the CLMP Firecracker Award in Nonfiction, and winner of the Big Other Award in Nonfiction and the hybrid chapbook, The Persistence of The Bonyleg: Annotated (Essay Press 2016), winner of the Essay Press Digital Chapbook Contest. Her newest book, Carousel, was recently published by Yale University Press in July 2026.
