Today You Are Perfect - Trainor, Collins, Kelly
In our monthly reading series, "Today You Are Perfect," we bring poets and artists and listeners together to share their words. Afterward, everyone has the option to participate in a small question and answer session.
The Lineup: Genevieve Trainor, Ryan Collins, Donika Kelly
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 26, 7:00-8:00 pm CT (5 PT, 6 MT, 8 ET)
Platform: In person and online
- In person at Meeting Room A, Iowa City Public Library, 123 S Linn St, Iowa City.
- Livestreaming on Iowa City Public Library's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/
thelibrarychannel
Support Poets: You can enjoy Genevieve's work by ordering These Interesting Times HERE. Ryan Collins' book A New American Field Guide & Song Book can be ordered HERE. You can order Donika Kelly's books Renunciations and Bestiary by visiting and scrolling down HERE.
Genevieve Trainor
Genevieve Trainor, publisher and arts editor at Little Village Magazine, is an editor, critic, and creator based in Iowa City, Iowa. Passions include comic books, stoner rock, tabletop gaming, and arguing about politics; everything good about them is attributable to wife Madeline and offspring Calliope, D.C., and Thalia.
Ryan Collins
Ryan Collins is the author of a book of poems, A New American Field Guide & Song Book, and several chapbooks. His poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine; Asymptote; Columbia Poetry Review; Diagram; Forklift, Ohio; Handsome; Ninth Letter; PEN Poetry Series; Verse Daily; and many other places. Recent prose poems have appeared in Apartment, Crazyhorse, The Pinch, Poor Claudia, sidereal magazine, and Zócalo Public Square. He is an English instructor at St. Ambrose University and the Executive Director of the Midwest Writing Center. He hosts the Spectra Reading Series in Rock Island, IL, where he lives.
Donika Kelly
Donika Kelly is the author of THE RENUNCIATIONS (Graywolf 2021) and BESTIARY (Graywolf). BESTIARY is the winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry, and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. The collection was also long listed for the National Book Award, and was a finalist for a Publishing Triangle Award and a Lambda Literary Award. A Cave Canem graduate fellow and member of the collective Poets at the End of the World, Donika has also received a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a summer workshop fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center. Her poems have been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic online, The Paris Review, and Foglifter. She currently lives in Iowa City and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa, where she teaches creative writing.
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