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SUMMARY:Rooftop Music & Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join the Porchlight Literary Arts Center on the deck of Market House for an evening of music\, poetry\, and prose. The Rooftoop 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 gorgeous views\, drinks and good company. \nVisit Porchlight Literary Arts Center for tickets and more information.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/rooftop-music-reading-series/
LOCATION:Market House\, 202 N. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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SUMMARY:PorchLight: Rooftop Music & Reading for July
DESCRIPTION:Join PorchLight on the deck of MarketHouse in IC’s North Side for an evening of music\, poetry\, and prose. The Rooftoop 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. Purchase tickets for the event on the PorchLight website! \n  \nThe July session features: \n \nLauren Haldeman is the author of Instead of Dying (winner of the 2017 Colorado Prize for Poetry)\, Calenday\, and The Eccentricity is Zero. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry\, Tin House\, The Colorado Review\, Fence\, Tupelo Quarterly\, among others. A graphic novelist and poet\, she’s received an Iowa Arts Fellowship\, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award\, and fellowships from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \n \nScott Russell Morris is a writer and enthusiast. He is the author of Points of Tangency: Essays (Cornerstone Press\, Sept 2024) and is the editor and creator of Magpie Zines\, a zine about tarot\, magpies\, and found meaning. He is the Poet Laureate of Mt Vernon\, IA\, and an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College. \n \nDeb Talan grew up in the small town of Pelham\, Massachusetts. She later attended Brown University\, where she was a member of the Chattertocks\, Brown’s oldest all-female a cappella group\, before moving to Oregon\, where she was a member of Hummingfish\, a Portland band\, for six years. Talan’s recurring lyrical motifs include celestial objects\, birds\, nature\, and various historical figures (e.g.\, Marc Chagall in “Painting By Chagall\,” Amelia Earhart in “Thinking Amelia\,” and Vincent van Gogh in “Vincent”). Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn inspired Talan to write “Tell Your Story Walking”. This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One)\, a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. “Tell Your Story Walking” was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest. In addition to the Weepies’ albums\, (Steve Tannen is the other half of the duo)\, Talan and Tannen collaborated with singer/actress Mandy Moore on her 2007 album Wild Hope. Together\, they wrote and recorded five songs with Mandy — the single “Extraordinary\,” the title track “Wild Hope\,” “All Good Things\,” “Few Days Down” and “Looking Forward to Looking Back.”[1] “Forgiven” played over the closing credits of the 2001 film Lovely & Amazing. \n \nKeith Pilapil Lesmeister is the author of the story collections Ask Me About the Money and We Could’ve Been Happy Here. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars\, his work has received support from the Anderson Center\, Iowa Arts Council\, and Springboard for the Arts. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction\, december magazine\, Gettysburg Review\, New Stories from the Midwest\, North American Review\, Redivider\, Terrain\, and elsewhere. He’s a founding editor of Cutleaf and teaches at Northeast Iowa Community College.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/porchlight-rooftop-music-reading-for-july/
LOCATION:Market House\, 202 N. Linn St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:General
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SUMMARY:PorchLight: Rooftop Music and Reading Series
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOur August session features: \nJordan 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. \nElizabeth 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). \nMark 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. \nSarah 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.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/porchlight-rooftop-music-and-reading-series/
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SUMMARY:PorchLight: Rooftop Music & Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join them 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. \n \nMatthew Neill Null is a recipient of the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Mary McCarthy Prize\, the O. Henry Award\, the Pushcart Prize\, and the Michener–Copernicus Society of America Award. His stories appear in The Kenyon Review\, American Short Fiction\, Ecotone\, Oxford American\, Ploughshares\, Electric Literature\, PEN /O. Henry Prize Stories\, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses\, and The Best American Mystery Stories. A native of West Virginia\, he holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’  Workshop and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Massachusetts\, as well as at the American Academy in Rome. His novel\, Honey from the Lion (Lookout\, 2015)\, was short listed for the L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark Fiction Prize\, and his story collection\, Allegheny Front (Sarabande\, 2016)\, was named a finalist for Foreword’s INDIE collection of the year. He is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University.  \nHis new novel\, Floodgate\, is forthcoming in August 2026 from Blair.  \nCory Hutchinson-Reuss (she/her) is a poet whose work has appeared in Timber\, Slice\, Zone 3\, Josephine Quarterly\, Crazyhorse (for the Lynda Hull Memorial Prize)\, the Missouri Review online\, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Iowa and has taught in both academic and community settings. Originally from Arkansas\, she currently lives in Iowa City\, where she has participated in the Writers Workshop at Oakdale Prison\, reads poetry for The Adroit Journal\, and serves on the Advisory Council for Iowa City Poetry\, a nonprofit group that works to make poetry events widely accessible to the local community. A collaborative chapbook of her poems and the visual art of Giselle Simón was published in 2022 as part of the PromptPress Gallery Series. On the elevator or down the aisles or in the kitchen\, Cory is always on the brink of dancing. \nNicole Upchurch is an Associate Director of the Family Folk Machine. She is a singer/songwriter and clawhammer banjo player who performs regularly with Awful Purdies and The Feralings. \nMargaret LeMay is the author of sample.spring\, a poetry collection available from Finishing Line Press. Her work was a recent finalist for The Iowa Review Awards and has been shortlisted for the Four Way Books Levis Prize\, the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize\, and the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Award. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine\, Brink\, the North American Review\, The Cortland Review\, The Iowa Review and elsewhere. Her work also can be dialed up at two U.S. locations of the Telepoem Booth and has served as title and movement titles for a piano quintet commissioned by the Library of Congress.
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