Iowa City Poetry News and Happenings
Stay up to date on poetry events, slams, and community resources.
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Sunday, January 4, 4:00-5:00 PM CT
Online Writers Open Mic
Share 4-5 minutes of your original writing with an appreciative and supportive audience.
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Four Sundays, January 4, 11, 18, 25
Growing / Gleaning / Gluing: A Generative Workshop on Literary Collage
Sarah Elgatian
We'll ask ourselves what objects, media, forms, or genres can best support or open up this piece? Make it unravel?
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Sunday, January 11, 2:30-4 pm
Building a Poetry Collection: Arc, Form & Voice
In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the art (and a little of the business) of shaping a poetry manuscript.
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Sunday, January 18, in person & online
Free Gen for January
Each month a talented writer in our area leads the generative writing session, inspired by their own passions & interests.
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Tuesday, January 20, 8-10 pm
Spoken Word Open Mic & Jazz Jam
Bring your friends, bring your instrument, bring your words
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Sunday, January 25, in person
Write at the Stanley
Join us at the Stanley Museum of Art to generate new creative writing inspired by work in the collection.
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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.