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Tuesday, March 28
IC Speaks - High School Open Mic
Come to share your creative work or enjoy the work of others!
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Tuesday, March 28
Today You Are Perfect - Huang, Sofala-Jones, Frazier
In our monthly reading series, "Today You Are Perfect," we bring poets and artists and listeners together to share their words.
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Sunday, April 2, 4:00-5:00 PM CT
Writers Open Mic
Share 4-5 minutes of your original writing with an appreciative and supportive audience.
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Sunday, April 16
Free Generative Writing Workshop for April: Nicole Vanderlinden
Every month a new writer leads a generative hybrid workshop, presenting a prompt inspired by their own preoccupations, passions, or interests.
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Saturday, April 29, 2023
Iowa City Poetry Alfresco 2023
An evening of open-air progressive poetry readings at various businesses and private residences in the Longfellow Neighborhood.
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poetry // infrastructure
The project asks: what collaborations emerge as we tap into these forms and re-enliven them as visual art on the city’s physical structures, as online posts, and as embodied performance in communal spaces?
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Four Saturdays, June 10, 17, 24, July 1
Morning in the Burned House: Writing Poems on Grief & Loss
Joan Kwon Glass
In this generative workshop, we will write poems about what and whom we have lost and how we move forward.
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Tuesday & Thursday, 6-8 PM
Library
Stop by to visit us at the new Iowa City Poetry Lending Library!
Our Question
How do we share poetry resources with everyone?
And because we’re based in Iowa City, we ask the question slightly differently. How do we share the wealth of literary resources in Iowa City, a UNESCO City of Literature and home to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, with all poets? Poets of all ages, incomes, identities, and experience levels?
Our Organization
founding director Lisa Roberts leads the team
With Reading Series Director Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, the Advisory Council, and the support of The James Gang, we are working to grow our programming and reach.