Marathon Public Reading of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Pedmall Weatherdance Fountain Stage College St., Iowa City, IA

April is Shakespeare’s birthday month (not to mention National Poetry Month), and Riverside Theatre and the City of Literature will celebrate by highlighting literary masterpieces rarely explored on stage: the

Spring 2024 Simon & Schuster AuthorFest

A Virtual Event

  Join TJ Alexander, Kaliane Bradley, & Jackie Lau in conversation with Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the duo behind the romance power-house Christina Lauren. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24th At 7PM

SlamoVision Slam

PS1 Close House 538 S Gilbert St, Iowa City, IA

SlamoVision is a project of the international UNESCO Cities of Literature. Slam poets in some of the 53 Cities of Literature around the world will compete in their home cities.

Little Village Presents: Roast of Iowa City

ReUnion Brewery 113 E College St, Iowa City

  Year after year, some of the area’s most treasured comics and writers gather together to relentlessly burn and mock everything sacred and dear about our town. Doors open at

It Can’t Happen Here – A Staged Reading

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

A cautionary dark satire about the fragility of democracy and how fascism can take hold even in the land of liberty, It Can't Happen Here follows the ascent of a

Stuart Dybek

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

Stuart Dybek is the author of five books of fiction--Ecstatic Cahoots, Paper Lantern, I Sailed with Magellan, The Coast of Chicago, and Childhood and Other Neighborhoods–as well as two collections of poetry, Brass Knuckles and Streets in Their

Curator Guided Tour: Hawkeye Histories | Sporting Stories

University of Iowa Main Library Gallery 125 W Washington St, Iowa City, IA

Duke Slater, University Archives, University of Iowa Libraries Join Dr. Jennifer Sterling for a special guided tour of the current Main Library Gallery exhibition. The exhibit explores both well-known and

Bruna Dantas Lobato – Blue Light Hours

Prairie Lights Books 15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City, IA

BRUNA DANTAS LOBATO is a writer and translator. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, A Public Space, and The Common. She was awarded the 2023 National Book Award in Translation for The Words

Film Screening: Taxi Driver with Notes from Underground

Iowa City Public Library 123 S. Linn St., Iowa City, IA

This screening is part of a larger program that celebrates the 160th anniversary of the publication of Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground." Martin Scorsese's 1976 film is the novel’s most