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SUMMARY:Iowa City Book Festival
DESCRIPTION: The Iowa City Book Festival is happening October 18–25\, 2026! Join us for a week of literary events\, author talks\, readings\, and more at various locations throughout downtown Iowa City.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-city-book-festival-2/
LOCATION:Downtown Iowa City
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Curator Guided Tour: It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. “Ding” Darling
DESCRIPTION:Join co-curators Collin Vandewalle and Lindsay Moen for a special guided tour of the current University of Iowa Libraries Main Library Gallery exhibition\, It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You: Wildlife Conservation and Advocacy Through the Lens of Jay N. “Ding” Darling. Oct. 21 is also Darling’s birthday\, so stop by for birthday treats before or after the tour! (Gluten-free and vegan options available.) \nAll are welcome to attend this free event\, which is being held in partnership with the Iowa City Book Festival. \nAbout the exhibit:\nA Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for The Des Moines Register\, Jay N. “Ding” Darling (1876–1962) was also one of the nation’s most influential figures in the American conservation movement. Appointed director of the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey (later part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt\, Darling made historic attempts to answer his growing concerns about industrialism’s impact on the environment. \nIn celebration of the 150th anniversary of his birth\, this exhibition explores the transformation of Iowa’s environmental landscape during Darling’s life and his contributions to environmental and wildlife conservation advocacy nationwide. It also showcases how his legacy lives on today both locally and across the country\, and how other Iowans have played key roles in our state’s conservation efforts. Curated by librarians Lindsay Moen and Collin Vandewalle\, It’s Been Wonderful Knowing You highlights the Jay N. “Ding” Darling Papers from Special Collections and Archives\, specimens from the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History\, and more from across the Libraries.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/curator-guided-tour-its-been-wonderful-knowing-you-wildlife-conservation-and-advocacy-through-the-lens-of-jay-n-ding-darling/
LOCATION:University of Iowa Main Library Gallery\, 125 W Washington St\, Iowa City\, IA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Slamovision: International Slam Poetry Judging
DESCRIPTION:Join Iowa City poets and poetry lovers during the Iowa City Book Festival to watch and rank slam poets from UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world as they compete for the 2026 Slamovision title. Scores from this international competition will help determine the winner\, who will be crowned at the Slamovision final on November 1 at The James Theater in Iowa City. There will be free pizza at the event… first come\, first served!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/slamovision-international-slam-poetry-judging/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Pilar Quintana: La perra (The Bitch)
DESCRIPTION:On a bluff overlooking Colombia’s rough Pacific coast\, at the edge of the jungle—a world where nothing is taken for granted –Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled\, she has reached the age “when women dry up\,” as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises\, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings. \nIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among\, The Bitch evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/pilar-quintana-la-perra-the-bitch/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Mark Leidner: Elegy for Pangaea
DESCRIPTION:Mark Leidner’s third poetry collection\, Elegy for Pangaea\, is as funny\, strange\, and epic as his two previous collections\, Returning the Sword to the Stone and Beauty Was the Case that They Gave Me. His new poems explore faith\, grief\, money\, myth\, parenting\, and poetry itself to create a collection as full of tantalizing ideas and dilemmas as “an enormous library with a waterbed floor.” As mystical as it is satirical\, as audacious as it is personal\, as hysterical as it is disconcerting\, in Elegy for Pangaea\, Leidner once again shows us that the only way out of irony is through.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/mark-leidner-elegy-for-pangaea/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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