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Write at the Stanley
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 and the Stanley Musuem of Art.
Adult and teen writers in all genres are welcome. No registration necessary. Meet us in the museum lobby at 2:30 pm on the appointed date.
DATES:
- Sunday, January 28 — Lisa Roberts
- Sunday, February 25 — Margaret Yapp
- Sunday, March 24 — David Duer
- Sunday, April 28 — Lisa Roberts
- Sunday, May 26 — tba
TIME: 2:30-4:15 pm
LOCATION: University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, 160 W. Burlington Street, Iowa City. Meet in the lobby.
lisa Roberts
Lisa Roberts has taught literature and writing at universities in Hong Kong, Virginia, Las Vegas, and Nebraska. After moving to Iowa, she worked as Assistant Director of the Iowa Youth Writing Project. Today she is the director of Iowa City Poetry, a community arts organization sharing literary resources with writers of all ages, incomes, and identities. She also teaches in the High School Completion Program at Kirkwood. Her poems have appeared in Plainsongs, The Untidy Season, Little Village, and Backchannels. She has performed spoken word poems at a variety of shows, including Was the Word, Voicebox, The Hook, and Poetry in Motion.
Margaret Yapp
Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She works as the managing editor at Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press, an ongoing poetry broadside project. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Iowa Center for the Book. She has taught classes in literature, creative writing, and book arts for the University of Iowa and Iowa City Poetry. Her work has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Second Factory, Asphalte, and elsewhere. Her debut book of poems, Green for Luck, is forthcoming from EastOver Press (April 2024). You can read more at Margaret’s website which is margaret yapp dot com / instagram @bigbabymarg.
DAVID DUER
Born in Akron, Ohio, David Duer recently retired from teaching English language arts at Cedar Rapids Washington High School. He's now a volunteer art docent at both the Stanley Museum of Art and the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art. His work has been published in Ascent, English Journal, Exquisite Corpse, Little Village, Poetry, and elsewhere. A chapbook of his poetry, To Bread, was published by Coffee House Press.
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