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SUMMARY:Patchwork: A Reading of Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:In every corner of this universe\, there is a story waiting to be heard. Join the students of the Literary Translation MFA as they gather and read excerpts from their translations of world literature. In collaboration with Exchanges Literary Journal\, the inaugural session of this reading series celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Iowa Translation Workshop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/patchwork-a-reading-of-literary-translation/
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:It Can’t Happen Here – A Staged Reading
DESCRIPTION: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 demagogue who becomes president of the United States by promising to return the country to greatness. Witnessing the new president’s tyranny from the sidelines is a liberal\, middle-class newspaper editor from Vermont who trusts the system will fix itself—until he ends up in a prison camp. Sinclair Lewis’ eerily prescient 1935 novel gets a fresh update in this adaptation that examines what brings a citizenry to the point of sacrificing its own freedom and how a courageous few can prevail to overcome the fall.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/it-cant-happen-here-a-staged-reading/
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:Resilient Voices: A Multimedia Exhibition Celebrating Youth Empowerment\, Global Perspectives\, and the Legacy of Anne Frank
DESCRIPTION:A comprehensive initiative composed of several integrated elements that features a Digital Diaries Exhibit that showcases the firsthand experiences of youth across the globe\, focusing on themes of war\, struggle\, and resilience across time. \nThe digital diaries exhibit\, inspired by Anne Frank’s iconic\, red-checked diary\, showcases narratives from young individuals around the world and across different historical periods. Created by undergraduate students at the University of Iowa and local community members\, this exhibit features personal stories from various families\, and cultures. The digital diary provides viewers with insights into the history\, experiences\, and legacies of previously untold stories\, and encourages thoughtful reflection with collaborative discussion questions. \nA collection of submissions from Iowa City youth spotlights the young voices within our community. Drawing inspiration from Yeva Skalietska’s diary living through the Ukrainian war and themes of resilience\, personal struggles\, and peace\, these submissions convey the inner thoughts and experiences of young people in Iowa right here and now.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/resilient-voices/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T163000
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SUMMARY:Anna Barker: From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History
DESCRIPTION:Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground (1864)\, his first consequential post-Siberian imprisonment publication\, explores the tragicomedy of humanity’s entrapment in the confines soul-sapping modernity and serves as the foundation of the existential and metaphysical concepts he addresses in the Great Five: Crime and Punishment\, The Idiot\, Demons\, The Adolescent\, and Brothers Karamazov. \nIn commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the novel’s publication\, The Iowa City Book Festival presents an evening with two parts: \n\nAt 4:30 p.m.\, University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will present the talk “From Peter the Great to Napoleon the Lesser: Dostoevsky and the Great Men of History.”\nAt 6 p.m.\, Taxi Driver\,  Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film that is the novel’s most famous US adaptation\, will be screened. Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following\, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking\, prostitution\, gun violence\, war caused PTSD\, and urban decay of  the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anna-barker-from-peter-the-great-to-napoleon-the-lesser-dostoevsky-and-the-great-men-of-history/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241015T180000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Taxi Driver with Notes from Underground
DESCRIPTION: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 famous US adaptation. University of Iowa Adjunct Assistant Professor Anna Barker will lead a post-screening discussion immediately following\, where she will discuss the way the film explores the issues of underage woman trafficking\, prostitution\, gun violence\, war caused PTSD\, and urban decay of  the U.S. in the 1970s through the prism of Dostoevsky’s tale of moral decline and social alienation.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/film-screening-taxi-driver-with-notes-from-underground/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T120000
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SUMMARY:International Writing Program Panel: Balancing Life as an Artist
DESCRIPTION:  \nFeaturing IWP Residents: \nLisa ALLEN-AGOSTINI (fiction writer\, poet\, editor; Trinidad and Tobago) is the author of the historical noir novella Death in the Dry River (2024)\, the young adult novel Home Home (2020)\, and the domestic noir novel The Bread the Devil Knead (2021)\, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2022. She is currently working on a memoir in poetry and a novel set in the world of steelpan\, which is the national instrument of her homeland. \nPutra HIDAYATULLAH (nonfiction and fiction writer\, art curator\, educator; Indonesia) is the author of a short story collection entitled Kebun Jagal [The Butcher’s Garden] (2023). His nonfiction writing has appeared in Artlink\, Curatography\, The Jakarta Post\, and Check-In\, while his fiction has been published in InterSastra\, Porch Litmag\, and Koran Tempo\, among others. He served as a harvester for the international art exhibition documenta fifteen in Germany. He is currently writing a novel. \nMélanie WERDER-AVILÉS (playwright\, theatremaker\, scholar; Spain) is the author of the plays *Buena suerte\, chica; Sharenting; Nutella Days; and Tiradísimo de Precio [Dirt-cheap]; among others. Her play La Protagonista won the Lope de Vega award. She has been selected as a resident playwright at the Spanish National Drama Centre and has been a member of the International Summer Workshop at the Sala Beckett. She has been awarded the Carlota Soldevila Fellowship by the Teatre Lliure de Barcelona and is a member of the SGAE Playwriting Laboratory and the ETC of Contemporary Creation at the Sala Cuarta Pared in Madrid\, among others. She is currently researching documentary theatre practices as a predoctoral fellow at the Complutense University of Madrid. \nDaryl LI 李振宏 (nonfiction and fiction writer; Singapore) is the author of two collections of creative nonfiction—The Inventors (2023) and Tenderly\, Tenderly (2024)—as well as a forthcoming short story collection\, Minor Illusions. He was a finalist for the Georgia Review Prose Prize\, and his work has been longlisted for both the Australian Book Review’s Calibre Essay Prize and the same publication’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. In 2013\, he received a Golden Point Award for a short story in the English category. He is currently at work on a full-length nonfiction project as well as an essay collection. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/international-writing-program-panel-balancing-life-as-an-artist/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241018T173000
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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Racialism and the Media
DESCRIPTION:A presentation by University of Iowa Professor Venise Berry and S. Toriano Berry\, a professor emeritus at Howard University. Includes a screening of the hour-long film and a post-screening Q&A with the Berrys. \nThe nature of racial ideology has changed in our society. Yes\, there are still ugly racists who push uglier racism\, but there are also popular constructions of race routinely woven into mediated images and messages. Racialism includes\, but moves beyond traditional racism. It involves images\, ideas\, and issues that are produced\, distributed\, and consumed repetitively and intertextually based on stereotypes\, biased framing\, historical myths\, as well as traditional racism. These representations are normalized through the media\, ultimately shaping and influencing societal ideology and behavior. Based on 25 years of research by Venise Berry\, this documentary explores the connection between media\, African Americans\, and popular culture. \nThis event is co-presented by Refocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/film-screening-racialism-and-the-media/
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:Amanda Jones – That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Jones has been an educator for 23 years\, at the same middle school she attended as a child. She has served as President of the Louisiana Association of School Librarians and won numerous awards for her work in school libraries\, including School Library Journal Librarian of the Year. A sought-after keynote speaker\, Amanda is a frequent volunteer for state and national library associations\, as well as a co-founder of the Livingston Parish Library Alliance and founding member of Louisiana Citizens Against Censorship. She lives in Livingston Parish\, Louisiana. \nIn That Librarian\, Jones maps the book banning crisis occurring across the nation\, drawing the battle lines in the war against equity and inclusion\, calling book lovers everywhere to rise in defense of our readers. \nJones will be joined by by Sam Helmick\, the American Library Association Council 2024-2025 president-elect and the Iowa City Public Library Community & Access Services Coordinator. \nCosponsored by the Iowa City Public Library’s Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival\, an annual event series promoting our right to seek information\, read\, and speak freely. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/amanda-jones-that-librarian-the-fight-against-book-banning-in-america/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T113000
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SUMMARY:Josh Cowen – The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
DESCRIPTION:Josh Cowen is Professor of Education Policy at Michigan State University\, and an author on topics related to education politics\, school choice\, and culture wars in the United States. In addition to each of the major academic outlets in his research field\, his popular writing has appeared in outlets such as The Conversation\, the Dallas Morning News\, the Detroit Free Press\, The Hechinger Report\, the Houston Chronicle\, The New Republic\, the Philadelphia Inquirer\, Slate\, The Tennessean\, the Washington Spectator and more. He lives in mid-Michigan with his family. \nIn The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers\, Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns of the dangers of education privatization. A former evaluator of state and local school voucher programs\, Cowen demonstrates how\, as such programs have expanded in the United States\, so too has the evidence-informed case against them.  \nCosponsored by the Iowa City Public Library’s Carol Spaziani Intellectual Freedom Festival\, an annual event series promoting our right to seek information\, read\, and speak freely. \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/josh-cowen-the-privateers-how-billionaires-created-a-culture-war-and-sold-school-vouchers/
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:Jarod K. Anderson – Something in the Woods Loves You
DESCRIPTION:Sometimes in life\, you find yourself lost in an utterly dark place. When poet and author Jarod K. Anderson found himself trapped by a deep and lonely depression\, he turned to the woods\, literally. In his new book\, Something in the Woods Loves You\, Anderson explores the inherent ways nature can help fight mental illness\, saying\, in nature\, “We are being offered a lesson\, if we are wise enough to accept it.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/jarod-k-anderson-something-in-the-woods-loves-you/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T143000
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SUMMARY:Ari Berman – Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It
DESCRIPTION:Ari Berman is the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones and a reporting fellow at Type Media Center. He will read from Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People—and the Fight to Resist It\,. He is also the author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (finalist\, National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction) and Herding Donkeys: The Fight to Rebuild the Democratic Party and Reshape American Politics. He is a native of Fairfield\, Iowa. \nThe event will be moderated by Ty Rushing\, an assistant professor of practice at the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He is the former chief political correspondent for Iowa Starting Line\, and co-founder of the Iowa Association of Black Journalists. \nThis event is presented in partnership with the League of Women Voters of Johnson County \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ari-berman-minority-rule-the-right-wing-attack-on-the-will-of-the-people-and-the-fight-to-resist-it/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241019T160000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240926T164621Z
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SUMMARY:Marc Ribot – Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist
DESCRIPTION:After performing his score for Yakov Protazanov’s pioneering sci-fi film Aelita: Queen of Mars as part of FilmScene’s Refocus Film Festival\, Ribot joins the Iowa City Book Festival where he will read from his book Unstrung: Rants & Stories of a Noise Guitarist.  “Guitarist Marc Ribot helped Tom Waits refine a new\, weird Americana on 1985’s Rain Dogs\, and since then he’s become the go-to guitar guy for all kinds of roots-music adventurers: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss\, Elvis Costello\, John Mellencamp.” —Rolling Stone \nThis event is presented in partnership with the Refocus Film Festival and Hancher Auditorium
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/marc-ribot-unstrung-rants-stories-of-a-noise-guitarist/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241020T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241020T140000
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SUMMARY:Anne Frank’s Diary – A Multilingual Multimedia Reading
DESCRIPTION:Students from Iowa City\, fluent in 15 different languages\, will present passages from Anne Frank’s diary. This event provides an opportunity for attendees to engage in meaningful dialogue\, reflect on the Holocaust and other tragic global events\, and foster a sense of community as the 95th anniversary of Frank’s diary is commemorated.  \nThe event will include remarks by National Book Award winner Theodore Rosengarten\, a writer\, teacher\, and a social activist from McClellanville\, South Carolina. Rosengarten taught the history of the Holocaust for decades in the Jewish Studies Program at the College of Charleston and in the Honors College at the University of South Carolina.  \nThe first Anne Frank Initiative Little Library\, created in partnership with Clear Creek Amana Middle School\, will be unveiled at the event. Co-presented by the Anne Frank Initiative in International Programs at the University of Iowa. \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anne-franks-diary-a-multilingual-multimedia-reading/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241020T160000
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SUMMARY:Tisa Bryant – Unexplained Presence
DESCRIPTION:A multidisciplinary performance melding film with live readings inspired by Bryant’s book of hybrid essays. \nThis event is co-presented by Refocus Film Festival.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/tisa-bryant-unexplained-presence/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20241201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20241201T160000
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SUMMARY:Let’s Move The Needle: Art and Activism in Community
DESCRIPTION:Join author\, artist and craftivist Shannon Downey for a community stitching event and book launch. Filled with reflection\, activities\, exercises\, prompts\, and stories\, her new book\, Let’s Move the Needle\, is both a how-to guide and a testament to the power of art and handwork to build community and make change. Everyone can be a changemaker\, and change-making can be enjoyable\, and a bit sassy! \nShannon Downey is the founder of Badass Cross Stitch and Seriously Badass Women\, and is an artist\, activist\, craftivist\, community builder\, and general instigator. She is on the faculty at Columbia College Chicago and currently lives in Chicago\, Illinois. \n2-3:00 PM Reading\, Q&A and book-signing – Prairie Lights Books will be here with copies of Shannon Downey’s Let’s Move the Needle for sale. \n3-4:00 PM Community Stitch-Fest – Get inspired and have some fun! Bring a project or we’ll have instructions and a pattern for learning. \nCosponsored by Prairie Lights Books and Home Ec Workshop.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/lets-move-the-needle-art-and-activism-in-community/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251005T140000
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SUMMARY:Chris Pio: Nicknames & Mascots book series
DESCRIPTION:Author Chris Pio\, from Cedar Rapids discusses his “Nicknames and Mascots” series which describes the origins\, evolution and relevant meaning of collegiate athletic team nicknames and the colorful\, physical mascot characters that represent the schools.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/chris-pio-nicknames-mascots-book-series/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251006T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251006T190000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251005T155215Z
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SUMMARY:Steve Kemp: An Exaltation of Parks
DESCRIPTION:America’s national parks are facing unprecedented challenges. With visitation pressures mounting and the National Park Service struggling to keep up\, author\, former park ranger\, and Iowa City native Steve Kemp looks toward one exceptionally effective historical example of conservation philanthropy and park building—the collaboration between John D. Rockefeller Jr. and NPS legends Stephen Mather\, Horace Albright\, and Arno Cammerer. \nKemp’s latest book\, An Exaltation of Parks reveals the inspiring story of this collaboration\, showing how the partnership transformed some of America’s most cherished national parks\, including Acadia\, Grand Teton\, Great Smoky Mountains\, Yellowstone\, and Yosemite. It recounts Rockefeller’s lifelong dedication to conservation\, digging into his own pockets and toiling as a volunteer to achieve his goals for converting private land into public use. Bringing to life the history and significance of America’s most magnificent landscapes\, this volume is both a tribute to past conservation victories and a call to action for the future\, emphasizing the need for continued vigilance to preserve these national treasures for generations to come. \nThis event will be livestreamed and archived at the Iowa City Public Library’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/steve-kemp-an-exaltation-of-parks/
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:Donika Kelly: The Natural Order of Things
DESCRIPTION:What does a life look like on the other side of survival\, and can the one who survived come to recognize that she did? \nDonika Kelly’s poetry is known for its resonant\, unflinching confrontations with trauma and inheritance\, translated through myth and nature. The Natural Order of Things expands these explorations into a new realm: one defined by joy and connection. It is an ode to companionship with people\, animals\, and our planet\, and reveals the reparative power of intimacy. In poems inventive\, playful\, and formally nimble\, Kelly pays homage to the voices and people she comes from\, the songs of her lineage. Other poems follow the early stirrings of love to erotic transcendence with the lover and the self. Throughout\, Kelly finds mirror and marvel in nature\, art\, and precious friendships. Though it once seemed impossible\, she realizes a surprising place for herself\, a rightness in the larger world. \nDonika Kelly is the author of Bestiary\, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, and The Renunciations\, winner of the Anisfield Wolf Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. \nThis event will be livestreamed at the Iowa City Public Library’s YouTube channel.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/donika-kelly-the-natural-order-of-things/
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:John Warner – Only Humans Write: Why You Shouldn’t Outsource Your Humanity to ChatGPT
DESCRIPTION:John Warner\, author of More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI believes there are important distinctions to be made between the writing of humans and the syntax generation of large language models like ChatGPT. These distinctions are at the root of what he believes we should value\, the fact that human communication comes from our “unique intelligences” and that humans are not reducible to patterns and predictions. In this presentation he will talk about how to navigate the tensions that generative AI has introduced into our schools\, workplaces\, and lives in order to preserve essential and meaningful experiences related to our deepest human selves. \nIn the book\, Warner argues that generative AI programs like ChatGPT not only can kill the student essay but should\, since these assignments don’t challenge students to do the real work of writing. To Warner\, writing is thinking—discovering your ideas while trying to capture them on a page—and feeling—grappling with what it fundamentally means to be human. The fact that we ask students to complete so many assignments that a machine could do is a sign that something has gone very wrong with writing instruction. More Than Words calls for us to use AI as an opportunity to reckon with how we work with words—and how all of us should rethink our relationship with writing. \nThis event will be livestreamed and archived at the Iowa City Public Library’s YouTube channel. \n  \nCo-Presented by the University of Iowa School of Journalism and Mass Communication \n \n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/john-warner/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T120000
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SUMMARY:International Writing Program Panel: Trials and Tribulations of Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:A panel featuring International Writing Program participants Tomás Downey (Argentina) and Florencia del Campo (Spain)\, with guest author Kazim Ali.  \nThe International Writing Program (IWP) is a unique conduit for the world’s literatures\, connecting well-established writers from around the globe\, bringing international literature into classrooms\, introducing American writers to other cultures through reading tours\, and serving as a clearinghouse for literary news and a wealth of archival and pedagogical materials. Since 1967\, over 1\,600 writers from more than 160 countries have been in residence at the University of Iowa.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/international-writing-program-discussion-series/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251010T173000
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CREATED:20250908T172033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250922T155826Z
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SUMMARY:SlamoVision Watch & Judge Party
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special SlamoVision judging night! Attendees will watch performances from slam poets representing 17 UNESCO Cities of Literature around the world and help decide the outcome by scoring each one. Enjoy free pizza while you cast your votes—the scores from Iowa City will be combined with those from other cities to help crown the next international SlamoVision champion.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/slamovision-watch-judge-party/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T100000
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SUMMARY:Laura Julier – Off Izaak Walton Road: The Grace That Comes Through Loss
DESCRIPTION:Loss and sorrow can overwhelm even the strongest person\, forcing them to reckon with their emotions whether they want to or not. In this extraordinary debut\, Laura Julier recounts her reckoning\, which took place in an old cabin tucked away on a hidden and forgotten gravel road along the Iowa River. In company with silence and snow\, with eagles\, owls\, and a host of other birds\, Julier finds solace and begins to emerge from the dark corners of grief. Over time\, she comes to understand she cannot bury grief or turn aside from loss but must walk in its presence\, awake and humble\, until\, at last\, she finds her own wholeness within it.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/laura-julier/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T150000
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CREATED:20230915T171850Z
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SUMMARY:Friends Foundation Pop-up Used Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the lobby of the Iowa City Public Library between festival events to browse for a new (to you) book.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/friends-foundation-pop-up-used-book-sale/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T113000
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CREATED:20250908T180037Z
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SUMMARY:Ted Geltner: Flagrant\, Self-Destructive Gestures
DESCRIPTION:The year was 1988\, and Denis Johnson was at a low point. He caught malaria on a reporting trip into the jungles of the Philippines and was nearly pronounced dead. The disease left him unable to write. His second wife left him. He didn’t have enough money to pay his taxes. His publisher was waiting for a book that he hadn’t started. But in the life of Denis Johnson\, when things were at their bleakest\, something good was usually waiting around the next corner. This time\, what emerged from the chaos was his masterpiece Jesus’ Son\, a book that would tap into the zeitgeist of the 1990s and become a bible for Generation X and an American classic. \nFlagrant\, Self-Destructive Gestures tells the complete story of Johnson’s fascinating life\, his thrill-seeking trips into war zones as a magazine correspondent\, his battles with addiction\, his live-it-before-you-write-it style of fiction. It follows the arc of his tremendous body of work as a novelist\, journalist\, poet\, and playwright\, and in the process recovers the true stories from the hazy myths that one of our most beloved\, yet enigmatic\, writers left behind.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ted-geltner-flagrant-self-destructive-gestures/
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:Art Cullen: We Crapped In Our Nest
DESCRIPTION:We have fouled our nest over the past half century in a way that was almost unavoidable\, given our history of seeking domination — first over the Indigenous people of the Western World\, then over their land. Native people for millennia lived with the land in a vital relationship. Europeans set out to transform that relationship brutally\, and this destruction has reached a head. We simply cannot go on like this\, washing our soil down the river while the planet bakes\, ignoring our own immigration story. \nAs Art writes\, “Fifty years around a small town amid the teeming waves of golden corn\, a lot has changed\, but corn remains king\, just like when we were in school. But the place we knew is gone\, that world of family farms and the Saturday livestock auction. We are the poorer for it. This is how it went down\, or at least how I put it down\, in notes compiled over this strange time from Irving Street just up from the lake in the small town we called home.”
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/art-cullen-we-crapped-in-our-nest/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T143000
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SUMMARY:Christina Ward: Holy Food
DESCRIPTION:Does God have a recipe? Christina Ward’s Holy Food:  How Cults\, Communes\, and Religious Movements Influenced What We Eat – An American History investigates the explosion of religious movements since the Great Awakenings that birthed a cottage industry of food fads and cookbooks.  Ward uncovers the interconnectivity between obscure sects and communities of the 20th Century who dabbled in vague spirituality and used food to both entice and control followers. Holy Food draws on a range of sources\, including academic studies\, interviews\, cookbooks\, and religious texts\, to offer sharp insights into American history in this highly readable journey through the American kitchen. \n“Looks yummy!”\n— John Waters \n“Holy Food is a titanic feat of research and a fascinating exploration of American faith and culinary rites. Christina Ward is the perfect guide – generous\, wise\, and ecumenical.” — Adam Chandler\, author of Drive-Thru Dreams
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/christina-ward-holy-food/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251011T160000
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SUMMARY:Anna Barker: 13 Notes from Napoleon\, Iowa: Musings on the Edge of the French Empire
DESCRIPTION:Born on August 15\, 1769\, in Ajaccio\, on the Mediterranean island of Corsica\, Napoleon was the ruler of Iowa between 1800 and 1803 when he served as the First Consul of the French Republic. Iowa City\, Iowa\, evolved out of the 1838 settlement named after him — Napoleon\, Iowa — the location marked today by Napoleon Park\, off Napoleon Lane\, just south of Iowa City. The book illuminates aspects of Iowa’s French past\, such as cities named after the Napoleonic battles of Marengo and Waterloo\, and explains the mystery of Iowa’s distinctly French-looking flag. Along the way\, the author muses on other Napoleon-related matters\, such as Empire waist gowns\, Goethe’s and Byron’s Bonapartism\, the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo\, the Congress of Vienna\, and to what extent Europe’s current internal contradictions have been impacted by its Napoleonic past.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/anna-barker-13-notes-from-napoleon-iowa-musings-on-the-edge-of-the-french-empire/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251012T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251012T123000
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CREATED:20220831T160317Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry in Public Reading Featuring Iowa’s Student Poet Ambassador\, Daniel Umemezie
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Umemezie\, 2025–26 Iowa Student Poet Ambassador\nPoetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2025 Selected Poets. This event is live and in-person\, and will be streamed live at: https://www.youtube.com/thelibrarychannel \nFeaturing special guest\, Daniel Somotochukwu Umemezie\, the 2025–26 Iowa Student Poet Ambassador. \nParticipating Poets: \nKiley Adkins | Philip Beck | Dan Campion | Melanie Hester | Jennifer Horn-Frasier | Jessica Moore | Anna Moyers Stone | Charlotte Pearl | Mazzy Sleep | Rich Sokoli | Anjali Strand \nIf your poem was selected for Poetry in Public 2025 and you’d like to read it at the event\, please email us at info@iowacityofliterature.org
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/poetry-in-public-reading/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20251118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20251118T190000
DTSTAMP:20260404T215535
CREATED:20251009T154641Z
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SUMMARY:Paul Engle’s Community of Writers
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special conversation with Paul Engle’s daughter\, Mary Burge. Growing up during the early years of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, Mary witnessed its history firsthand and will share vivid stories from that time. She will be joined by her partner\, Will Boutelle\, the “boy next door” in Engle’s American Child sonnets\, who will also share memories and reflections. \nFeaturing special guest\, Reed Hagan\, winner of the 2025 Paul Engle Glory of the Senses High School Essay Contest. \nThis program is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. \nPaul Engle (October 12\, 1908 – March 22\, 1991)\, was born in Cedar Rapids\, Iowa\, on October 12\, 1908\, and grew up in a frame house in the Wellington Heights area. After graduating from Washington High School in Cedar Rapids\, Engle attended Coe College and the University of Iowa where he was one of the first students to earn an advanced degree based on a thesis of creative work—a collection of poems.  His first published collection\, Worn Earth\, went on to win the Yale Series of Young Poets. His best-selling second book of poetry\, American Song\, was heralded on the cover of the New York Times Book Review in a headline declaring him “A New Voice in American Poetry”.  After Iowa\, Engle travelled as a Rhodes Scholar to Oxford University in England. \nThough Engle did not found the Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa\, he built its reputation as the top graduate writing program in the United States. During his tenure as director\, he was responsible for luring some of the finest writers of the day to Iowa City: Phillip Roth\, John Berryman\, Kurt Vonnegut\, and many other prominent novelists and poets served as faculty under Engle. Additionally\, Engle increased enrollment and oversaw numerous students of future fame and influence\, including Flannery O’Connor\, John Irving\, Raymond Carver\, William Stafford\, and Robert Bly. \nAfter directing the Writers’ Workshop for twenty-four years\, Engle and future-second-wife Nieh Hualing co-founded The University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, which invited dozens of published authors from around the globe to visit the University of Iowa to write and collaborate. For their work with the IWP\, Engle and his wife were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1976.  Engle died at the age of eighty-two\, having published fourteen books of poetry\, a novel\, a memoir\, and an opera libretto\, and his literary legacy lives on in the lives and works of those authors he helped to educate and inspire. \nIn 2000\, nearly a decade after his death\, Paul Engle was declared Iowa’s “Poet of the Century” and then-Governor Tom Vilsack declared that Engle’s birthday\, October 12th\, would hereafter be known as “Paul Engle Day” to honor this life of creativity\, mentorship\, and generosity. \nLearn more about Paul Engle by watching our documentary\, City of Literature\n\n 
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/paul-engles-utopian-community-of-writers/
LOCATION:Iowa City Public Library\, 123 S. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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