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Jeff Biggers - Disturbing the Bones | Live from Prairie Lights

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Event date:  Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 - 7 p.m. Iowa City author Jeff Biggers will read from his new thriller (co-written with director/screenwriter Andrew Davis), Disturbing the Bones. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly describes Disturbing the Bones as "(A) thrillingly cinematic collaboration between The Fugitive director Davis and journalist Biggers... Intense, vivid action...By the time the breathless denouement rolls around, readers may find they've been up all night.” Jeff Biggers is...

Maureen McCue - Dancing In A Disabled World | Live from Prairie Lights

Thursday, November 21, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
Dr.  Maureen McCue will read from her candid, behind-the-curtains consideration of disability and being human, Dancing In A Disabled World. “I appreciated McCue’s attention to the lived realities of a child who later becomes the adult with developmental and cognitive disabilities.” —Kris Nagel, Psychologist “Maureen McCue’s stunningly candid and immersive memoir raises and addresses crucial questions for the individual and for social policy of how to best support and care for all described...
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Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop

Sunday, November 24, 2024 2:30pm to 4:15pm
Stanley Museum of Art
Write at the Stanley: A Generative Writing Workshop is back for the Fall Semester! Join us monthly to generate new creative writing inspired by works in the Stanley collection. Each session will be led by a different talented writer from our area, who will be offering a new prompt and a new approach to ekphrastic writing (writing inspired by visual art). Bring your own notebook and pencil or computer and leave with the beginning of a newly written piece. Co-sponsored by Iowa City Poetry. Teen...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1977.

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