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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, August 31 — Margaret Yapp
Sunday, September 28 — Nikka Singh
Sunday, October 26 — Poonam Dhir
Sunday, November 23

TIME: 2:30-4:15 pm

LOCATION: University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, 160 W. Burlington Street, Iowa City. Meet in the lobby.

MARGARET YAPP

Margaret Yapp is the author of Green for Luck (EastOver Press, 2024) and the founding editor of Rampage Party Press. She has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA in Book Arts from the Center for the Book. She lives in Iowa City.

Nikka Singh

Nikka is from California’s Inland Empire (which is not even near a beach) and now rents a condo in Coralville. He’s published and produced writing, podcasts, posters and death metal albums; no celebrities or commentators have ever praised his work, but Glenn Beck did generously slander him saying his visual art was part of a “communist plot to overthrow America.” Nowadays he is a graduate student in the Nonfiction Writing Program, at the University of Iowa, and a frequent participant in all things PS1. His current work centers around his family, and uses a hybrid of text and images.

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