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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Anthony Marra in celebration of the release of his book Mercury Pictures Presents (Random House\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220909T190000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Edward Carey
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with former Iowa Citian\, International Writing Program Resident\, and Iowa Writers’ Workshop Instructor\,  Edward Carey\, in celebration of the release of his book Plagues and Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches (University of Texas Press\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-edward-carey/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220908T190000
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Belinda Huijuan Tang in conversation with Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Belinda Huijuan Tang in celebration of the release of her book A Map for the Missing. She will be joined in conversation by Sanjena Sathian. \nYou can register for this virtual event HERE
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-belinda-huijuan-tang-in-conversation-with-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220907T093000
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UID:1660-1662543000-1662543000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Sidekick Coffee & Books: FALL STORYTIME
DESCRIPTION:Fall into a good story at Sidekick Coffee & Books!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sidekick-coffee-books-fall-storytime/2022-09-07/
LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220906T190000
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DTSTAMP:20260403T172734
CREATED:20220817T183103Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Adria Bernardi in conversation with Katie Runde and Louisa Hall
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Adria Bernardi in celebration of the release of her book Benefit Street. She will be joined in conversation by Katie Runde and Louisa Hall. \nRegister for this Zoom event HERE
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-adria-bernardi-in-conversation-with-katie-runde-and-louisa-hall/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220904T160000
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CREATED:20220817T190801Z
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SUMMARY:Iowa City Poetry: WRITERS OPEN MIC
DESCRIPTION:An off-shoot of The Free Generative Writing Workshops\, the Writers Open Mic welcomes writers of all genres and experience levels. Share 4-5 minutes of your original writing with an appreciative and supportive audience.  You do not have to be a past participant of a Free Generative Writing workshop or an Iowa City Poetry workshop to take part. Email lafelleman@gmail.com to reserve your slot in the open mic line-up.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iowa-city-poetry-writers-open-mic/2022-09-04/
LOCATION:icpoetry.link/mic-zoom
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220904T160000
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CREATED:20220817T175035Z
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UID:1614-1662307200-1662307200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series-2/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220902T120000
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SUMMARY:IWP Panel Discussion Series: Cultures in Conflict
DESCRIPTION:A conversation between three IWP 2022 Fall Residency writers on the theme of “Cultures in Conflict: What Is the Writer’s Place?” \nJoin us in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library\, or watch live online via the ICPL YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thelibrarychannel \nZaza Muchemwa (poet\, playwright\, arts administrator; Zimbabwe) has had her poetry appear at PEN International and Badilisha Poetry X-change and included in the anthology Zimbabwe Poets for Human Rights; author of the play The IVth Interrogation\, she is also an award-winning theater director and producer. Her journalism appears in Index on Censorship Magazine\, Povo Magazine and elsewhere. She participates thanks to a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State. \nKrystyna Dąbrowska (poet\, essayist\, translator; Poland) is the author of five poetry volumes\, most recently Miasto z indu [City of Indium] (2022). The recipient of the Wisława Szymborska\, the Kościelski and the Capital City of Warsaw literary awards\, she has had her poems translated into twenty languages. In the US\, they have appeared in Harper’s\, Ploughshares\, POETRY and elsewhere; in 2022\, a poetry volume in English translation\, Tideline\, appeared from Zephyr Press. Dąmbrowska herself translates Louise Glück\, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill\, Charles Simic and many other Anglophone poets. The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US.S. Department of State has funded her residency. \nAinur Karim (playwright; Kazakhstan)\, a lawyer by training\, has won national and international awards for her first play What’s Up\, Class 5-B?; The Passport\, about political protests in Kazakhstan\, was shortlisted for the Lyubimovka Drama Festival (Russia) and its English translation won the BBC International Radio Playwriting Competition. Additionally\, Karim writes for the screen\, edits\, and translates between Russian and Kazakh. She participates thanks to a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US State Department.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/iwp-panel-discussion-series-cultures-in-conflict/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Darius Stewart
DESCRIPTION:A reading and conversation with Darius Stewart in celebration of the release of his book Intimacies in Borrowed Light (EastOver Press\, 2022).
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-darius-stewart/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220828T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220828T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172734
CREATED:20220817T174756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T174756Z
UID:1610-1661702400-1661706000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: International Writing Program Sunday Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Hear some of this years’ International Writing Program residents read from their work. Readers TBA.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-international-writing-program-sunday-reading-series/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220827T170000
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UID:1685-1661619600-1661619600@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Discover Artist Grant Wood with the Cedar Rapids Opera
DESCRIPTION:Gather in the Stanley’s lobby for a special performance of selections from The Grant Wood Operas: Strokes of Genius by Iowa composers Robert Lindsay Nassif\, Jean-Francois Charles\, and Michael Ching\, performed by Jessica Patel\, Ian Butler\, Élise DesChamps\, Mitchell Widmer\, Jean-François Charles\, and Hsin-Hui Liu.\nThe concert will be preceded by a short introduction to the museum by director Lauren Lessing.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/discover-artist-grant-wood-with-the-cedar-rapids-opera/
LOCATION:Univ. of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art\, 160 W Burlington St\, Iowa City\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220825T190000
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CREATED:20220817T174542Z
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SUMMARY:Prairie Lights: Sarah Thankam Mathews in conversation with Sanjena Sathian
DESCRIPTION:Prairie Lights Virtual – Zoom \nREGISTER HERE to attend this virtual event! \nWriters’ Workshop Graduates Sarah Thankam Mathews and Sanjena Sathian\, will talk about Mathews’ new novel\, All This Could Be Different. Mathews will do also do a reading from the book. Described by Lithub as a “bildungsroman\, an immigrant story\, a hero’s journey not to be missed\,”  All This Could Be Different is also a warm\, dazzling\, and profound saga of queer love\, friendship\, work\, and precarity in twenty-first century America.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairie-lights-sarah-thankam-mathews-in-conversation-with-sanjena-sathian/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220823T103000
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UID:1658-1661250600-1661250600@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Sidekick Coffee & Books: PARENTS’ BACK TO SCHOOL BASH
DESCRIPTION:Join barre3 + Sidekick Coffee & Books for a morning just for the parents! Kids are back at school and we want to celebrate a summer well spent with movement\, treats\, and connections! We’ll start with 45-minutes of movement at barre3 with Maureen Beran to kickstart the academic year with self care. We’ll head to Sidekick afterwards for a mimosa\, macaroons\, and uninterrupted conversation! ​\nThis event will begin at 10:45am on Tuesday\, August 23rd. Registration is required and space is limited.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/sidekick-coffee-books-parents-back-to-school-bash/
LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220822T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220822T210000
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CREATED:20220801T154959Z
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SUMMARY:Cheap Copies! DIY publishing with Mimeo\, Hecto and Ditto
DESCRIPTION:with Rich Dana\nMon Aug. 22 & Tues Aug. 23 \, 6-9pm\nat PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert)\npay-what-you-can: $15-100 \nVisit http://www.publicspaceone.com/events/cheap-copies to register \nBefore social media\, even before xerox-copied zines and flyers\, marginalized communities used simple copying techniques– hectography (gelatin printing) mimeography (stencil printing) and spirit duplication (alcohol transfers\, also known as “ditto”)– to make their voices heard. From political activists struggling for independence in India to the early gay rights activists in New York City\, and from the dissident writers of Samizdat (self publishing) in the Soviet Union to the striking migrant farm workers of Southern California\, these analog copiers were used to spread the word through words and pictures in the 20th century. \nMostly forgotten\, I have been studying and recreating these techniques for the last 10 years. In 2021\, I self-published a book called “Cheap Copies! As a DIY guide for those who want to reconnect with the non-digital world of analog communication. \nThis summer\, I’m setting out across the US on a series of in-person workshops to demonstrate these low-cost techniques and how contemporary artists and writers can use them to publish editions of zines\, chapbooks\, prints\, and flyers. We’ll begin by discussing the history of office copying technology and how marginalized creators adopted these techniques in the early 20th century. Next\, we’ll dive into demos of making master sheets\, operation of vintage copiers\, and creating our own simple copiers from off-the-shelf materials. Finally\, participants will have full access to all of the materials and equipment to create their own editions with guidance from the instructor (me!) Participants will leave with the ability to create their own prints with miminal investment and without a studio.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/cheap-copies-diy-publishing-with-mimeo-hecto-and-ditto/2022-08-22/
LOCATION:PS1 Close House\, 538 S Gilbert St\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220821T193000
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UID:1676-1661110200-1661110200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:508 Poem Zine Reading Series: Cory Hutchinson-Reuss
DESCRIPTION:508 Press presents the Poem Zine Reading Series \nPoet Cory Hutchinson-Reuss\nSounds by Antifahorn \nin the PS1 North Art Gardens\nfree poem zines!
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/508-poem-zine-reading-series-cory-hutchinson-reuss/
LOCATION:PS1 N Gilbert St.\, 229 N. Gilbert St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220802T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220802T103000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172734
CREATED:20220728T184924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220728T184924Z
UID:1457-1659432600-1659436200@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:Summer Storytime at Sidekick Coffee & Books
DESCRIPTION:Join Sidekick for stories every Tuesday and Thursday this summer at 9:30 a.m.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/summer-storytime-at-sidekick-coffee-books/2022-08-02/
LOCATION:Sidekick Coffee & Books\, 1310 1/2 Melrose Avenue\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52242\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220727T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220727T200000
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UID:1420-1658944800-1658952000@www.iowacityofliterature.org
SUMMARY:The Scarlet Boudoir (The Writers’ Rooms)
DESCRIPTION:This is our romance Room led by the incredible Jolene Buchheit in person at the Cedar Rapids Public Library here from 6-7:30pm.  Can’t wait to see you there! Every fourth Wednesday\, 6 p.m.-8 p.m.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-scarlet-boudoir-the-writers-rooms/
LOCATION:Cedar Rapids Public Library\, 450 Fifth Avenue SE\, Cedar Rapids\, IA\, 52401\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20220726T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20220726T200000
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SUMMARY:The Violet Realm (The Writers’ Rooms)
DESCRIPTION:This is our Fantasy/Sci-fi Room led by Erin Casey. We’ve returned to meeting virtually on Facebook here from 6-8 PM.  Can’t wait to see you there! The Violet Realm meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/the-violet-realm-the-writers-rooms/
LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:General
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