october 2-5, 2014 - Iowa City Book Festival

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OCTOBER 2-5, 2014
WELCOME TO IOWA CITY, the third
UNESCO City of Literature in the world, one of
only seven to date, and still the only one in the
United States. The Iowa City UNESCO City of
Literature organization is proud to offer you four
days of literary programing as part of the 2014 Iowa
City Book Festival.
Staff
Executive Director
John Kenyon
Director of
Operations
Rachael Carlson
Festival Interns
Lauren Kostoglanis
Jessica Frye
Grace Coleman
Program Design:
Jordan Sellergren
Matt Steele
Photos By:
Mary F. Coats
Joe Mazza
Elena Seibert
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UNESCO conferred the City of Literature
designation on Iowa City in 2008. We are joined by
Edinburgh, Scotland; Melbourne, Australia; Dublin,
Ireland; Reykjavik, Iceland; Norwich, England; and
Krakow, Poland, as a City of Literature.
Iowa City is a City of Literature for many reasons:
The wonderful writing programs at the University
of Iowa, including the Writers’ Workshop and
International Writing Program, our small presses and
magazines, our wonderful libraries, our bookstores,
and amenities like the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk.
While you are here, we encourage you to explore
all of this and more, to fully immerse yourself in our
rich literary culture.
MANY PEOPLE WORKED to make this
year’s festival a reality. They are: Eileen Johnson, chair;
Larry Baker, Anna Barker, Andy Brodie, Hugh Ferrer,
Matthew Lage, John Logsdon, Andre Perry, Matt
Steele, Joe Tiefenthaler, Douglas Ward, Elizabeth
Weiss, Jan Weissmiller.
THANK YOU: Simon Andrew, Ron Clark, Patrick
DuLaney, Alan Hayes, Amy Hospodarsky, Bobby
Jett, Arthur Kim, Jason T. Lewis, Ina Loewenberg,
Marc Moen,Tori Morgensai, Sarah Shonrock, Anne
Stapleton, Brian Visser, the Bread Garden, the Iowa
City Public Library, Prairie Lights, Old Capitol, the Java
House, the Senior Center, FilmScene, MidWestOne,
Old Brick, the Englert Theatre, the International
Writing Program, the Dublin Underground, NewBo
Books, Legion Arts/CSPS, the Paul Engle Association
for Community Arts, M.C. Ginsberg, the University
of Iowa College of Medicine, Devotay, the Coralville
Public Library, Dulcinea, Daydreams Comics,
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History,
Beadology, High Ground Cafe, University Book Store,
RSVP, the Trumpet Blossom Cafe, the Mill.
SATURDAY Oct. 4
@ IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
10:30 A.M. CHILDREN’S STORY TIME
featuring Wee Gillis, by Munro Leaf. Prepare for
Sunday’s event celebrating the Waverley novels
of Sir Walter Scott with this Scottish story time.
Bagpipe music included.
1 P.M. YA AUTHOR EDWARD CAREY
reads from his new novel, Heap House.
2:30 P.M. YA AUTHOR JESSIE ANN
FOLEY reads from her new novel, The
Carnival at Bray
@ THE BOOK FAIR (10 A.M. - 5 P.M.)
AILEEN STEWART, author of the
children’s book, Fern Valley, will be in the Book
Fair Author’s Tent.
USBORNE BOOKS: Usborne is an
independent children’s book publisher with
around 2,000 titles in print, and publishes
almost every type of children’s book for every
age group, from baby books to young adult
novels.
ZENZIC PRESS: This independent
letterpress printing group will have hands-on
demonstrations for kids of all ages.
THE DEREK PROJECT: Children’s
activities in art and writing related to the idea
of happiness.
Sponsors
City of Iowa City
University of Iowa
Iowa City Public Library
Iowa City/Coralville Area
Convention & Visitors Bureau
The Eastern Iowa Airport
Sheraton Iowa City
Knutson Construction
Bradley & Riley PC/Iowa City
Downtown District
THURSDAY Oct. 2
CRIME FICTION HEAVYWEIGHT
James Ellroy has just published the first book
in what he calls the second L.A. Quartet.
In Perfidia, Ellroy drops the reader
into Los Angeles just before Pearl
Harbor is hit. We learn more about
many characters who show up in
the first L.A. Quartet (including L.A.
Confidential and The Black Dahlia) as
a trio of police officers investigate
the slaying of a Japanese family.
James Ellroy
AN EVENING WITH THE
DEMON DOG
Ellroy will read from the new book,
and then fellow crime novelist Craig
McDonald will interview the author about
his work. McDonald has interviewed Ellroy 7:30 P.M. | OLD BRICK
in the past, most notably for his interview
(26 E. MARKET ST.)
collections, Art in the Blood and Rogue Males. FREE
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all Iowa City Book Festival
events. If you need an accommodation in order to participate in this program,
please contact our office: [email protected], (319) 887-6100
Notes from the Underground
PUBLIC READING of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from
the Underground.
NOON - 4 P.M. | THE DUBLIN UNDERGROUND (5 S.
DUBUQUE ST.) | FREE
Panel: World Novel Today
WRITERS DISCUSS the state of the novel internationally. Featuring
Laurynas Katkus (Lithuania), Martina Odonkor (Ghana), Harry Stecopolous
and Peter Nazareth (University of Iowa).
Luis
Alberto
Urrea
NOON | GERBER LOUNGE (ENGLISH-PHILOSOPHY
BUILDING, UI CAMPUS) | FREE
>> 2014 PAUL ENGLE PRIZE WINNER
Luis Urrea leads a panel discussing issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.
7 P.M. | CORALVILLE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
(1301 5TH ST., CORALVILLE) | FREE
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FRIDAY Oct. 3
PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR of Gilead and its successor,
Home, Marilynne Robinson will read from her new novel, Lila, and then discuss
it with Ayana Mathis. Mathis, a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’
Workshop, where she studied under Robinson, is the author of the Oprah
Book Club 2.0 pick The Twelve Tribes of Hattie.
7:30 P.M.
ENGLERT THEATRE
221 E. WASHINGTON ST.
FREE
IN CONVERSATION
WITH
Marilynne Ayana
Robinson
Mathis
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Panel: Writing in a
Country at War
WHAT ARE A WRITER’S DUTIES, privileges and obligations
when his or her country is at war? Panelists are International Writing
Program participants Mujib Mehrdad (Afghanistan), Sadek Mohammed
(Iraq), and Boaz Gaon (Israel).
12:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY
PUBLIC LIBRARY | FREE
Screening + Signing
L.A.
Confidential
>> ATTENDEES WILL RECEIVE a copy of James Ellroy’s new
novel, Perfidia, and have the chance to meet Ellroy and have their book signed.
Ellroy then will speak before the screening about the film and the transition
from page to screen. Tickets are $40 and are available from FilmScene.
SIGNING: 6:30 P.M., SCREENING: 7 P.M. | FILMSCENE
(118 E. COLLEGE ST.) | $40 (info: www.icfilmscene.org)
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
ALL EVENTS FREE
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Book Fair
SATURDAY Oct. 4
175th Anniversary ceremony
More than 20 vendors and authors will be selling
books on the Pedestrian Mall
10 A.M. - 5 P.M. (SEE THE MAP ON PAGE
6-7 FOR A LIST OF VENDORS)
Iowa City was founded in 1839, and as we kick off the Iowa City Book
Festival’s Saturday programming, we will take a moment to mark the occasion,
taking a brief look back before we move forward.
9 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER
The Dublin Connection
FW75—CELEBRATING 75 YEARS OF FINNEGANS
WAKE: 2014 is the 75th anniversary of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. To
celebrate, the seven UNESCO Cities of Literature joined together to create
short films based on some of the stories in the novel. Following the screening,
Ron Clark from Riverside Theatre, one of the stars of Iowa City’s contribution,
will discuss the process of adapting Joyce’s difficult text to the stage.
10 A.M. | FILMSCENE (118 E. COLLEGE ST.)
Six authors with ties to Dublin will visit this year’s
festival in a special collaboration with the Dublin
UNESCO City of Literature. Events include:
IRISH WRITERS AT THE
INTERNATIONAL WRITING
PROGRAM: A CELEBRATION
Featuring Stephen James Smith, Paddy Woodworth,
Siobhan Campbell, Eamonn Wall, Joseph Woods
and Drucilla Wall
10 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE
CHAMBER
POETRY READING Featuring Smith,
Campbell and Woods
1 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA CITY
PUBLIC LIBRARY
PANEL: IRISH-AMERICAN
CULTURAL CONNECTIONS
Featuring Eamonn Wall, Woods, Campbell and
Drucilla Wall
2:30 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE
CHAMBER
A Tribute to Donald Justice
Ten years after his passing, the work of Donald
Justice continues to resonate. A panel of poets,
led by 2013 National Book Award winner Mary
Szybist, reads from and discusses the work of the
late poet in this special event.
2:30 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA
CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Glory of the Senses—PAUL ENGLE ESSAY
CONTEST CEREMONY: The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s
annual essay contest for Iowa high school sophomores includes a top prize of
one year of free tuition to the University of Iowa, and $500 cash scholarships
for runners up. Join us as we hear winning students read from their work.
11:30 A.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER
Paul Engle Prize Ceremony—
LUIS ALBERTO URREA will receive the 2014 Paul Engle Prize. Each
year, the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature awards the Paul Engle Prize
to a writer who, like Paul Engle, represents a pioneering spirit in the world
of literature through writing, editing, publishing, or teaching, and whose active
participation in the larger issues of the day has contributed to the betterment
of the world through the literary arts. Urrea, author, educator and activist, will
receive the award, deliver short remarks, and read briefly from his work.
1 P.M. | OLD CAPITOL SENATE CHAMBER
Reyna Grande—ONE COMMUNITY ONE BOOK:
Author Reyna Grande talks about her book, The Distance Between Us: A
Memoir, the 2014 One Community, One Book selection from the University
of Iowa Center for Human Rights. 7:30 P.M. | ROOM C20 OF THE
POMERANTZ CENTER, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA CAMPUS
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SATURDAY Events
A—POMERANTZ CENTER; 213 North
Clinton Street; OLD BRICK; 26 E. Market St.
B—HOME EC. WORKSHOP; 207 N. Linn St.
1 P.M. Poetry Embroidery Workshop
C—OLD CAPITOL; Clinton St. & Iowa Ave.
9 AM Iowa City 175th anniversary
10 AM Irish Writers at the IWP
11:30 AM Student Essay Awards
1 PM Engle Prize - Urrea
2:30 PM Panel: Dublin Connection
D—DUBLIN UNDERGROUND;
IOWA RIVER
5 S. Dubuque St.
E—PRAIRIE LIGHTS BOOKSTORE;
15 S. Dubuque St.
10 AM Peyton Marshall - Goodhouse;
Marcus Burke - Team Seven
11:30 AM Marlon James - A Brief History Of
Seven Killings
1 PM Marilyn Chin - Hard Love Province (Poems)
2:30 PM Kathleen Founds - When Mystical
Creatures Attack!; Heather A. Slomski - The Lovers Set
Down Their Spoons
4 PM Hubert Pedroli - Joyrider
F—SENIOR CENTER; 28 S. Linn St.
2:30 PM Panel - Loyalty and Betrayal: Chi Li, Craig
McDonald, June Melby, Franca Treur, Kinana Issa
4 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 2 Edward Carey,
Cynthia Edul, Peyton Marshall, Heather A. Slomski,
Tang Siu Wa
G—MIDWESTONE BANK; 102 S. Clinton St.
10 AM Panel - Breaking In, Breaking Out: Ali Cobby
Eckermann, Marlon James, Jon McGoran, Myay
Hmone Lwin, Andra Rotaru
11:30 AM Panel- Writing As Recovery: Auguste Corteau, Heekyung Eun, Sabah Sanhouri, Ahmed Shafie,
Yeow Kai Cahi
1 PM Panel - A Sense of Place 1: Marcus Burke, Bernice
Chauly, Jessie Ann Foley, Daren Kamali, Scott Phillips
H—JAVA HOUSE; 211 E.Washington St.
11:30 AM Levi Stahl - The Getaway Car: A Donald
E.Westlake Nonfiction Miscellany; Craig McDonald Forever’s Just Pretend
1 PM June Melby - My Family and Other Hazards
2:30 PM Robert Gutsche Jr. - A Transplanted Chicago:
Race, Place And The Press In Iowa City
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ALL EVENTS
FREE OF CHARGE
I—ENGLERT THEATRE; 221 E.Washington St.
J—FILMSCENE; 118 E. College St.
K—IOWA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY;
123 S. Linn St.
ROOM A
10 AM Scott Phillips - Hop Alley; Jon McGoran Deadout
11:30 AM Sean Strub - Body Counts; Terrence Holt
- Internal Medicine
1 PM Irish Poetry Reading: Stephen James Smith,
Siobhan Campbell, Joseph Woods
2:30 PM Justice Memorial: Mary Szybist, James
Galvin, Jan Weissmiller and others.
4 PM Paddy Woodworth - Our Once And Future
Planet; Jeff Biggers - Reckoning At Eagle Creek
TEEN ROOM
1 PM Edward Carey - Heap House (YA)
2 PM Jessie Ann Foley - The Carnival At Bray (YA)
L—THE MILL; 120 E. Burlington St.
M—TRUMPET BLOSSOM CAFE;
310 E. Prentiss St.
Vendors 10 AM - 5 PM
1—AUTHOR TENT
Featuring Edna Lee Allen, A Better Way; Joseph
Dobrian, Willie Wilden; Warren Goldie, Waking
Maya; Katherine Perkins-Armond, Dawn of Steam:
First Light; Aileen Stewart, Fern Valley; Tim Trenkle,
The Kings of Narrow Gate
2—AMONG THE STACKS
3—THE MINDBRIDGE FOUNDATION
4—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA BOOKSTORE
5—ICE CUBE PRESS
6—IOWA BOOK
7—ANOMALOUS PRESS
8—BEN TWEEDT
9—MARY POTTER KENYON
10—CANDLE LIGHT PRESS
11—INFO/VOLUNTEER CHECK-IN
12—UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS
13—THE IOWA REVIEW
14—PROMPT PRESS
15—CAMP COURAGEOUS
16—THE DEREK PROJECT
17—USBORNE BOOKS & MORE
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SUNDAY Oct. 5
AUTHOR JANE SMILEY
will read from and discuss her
new novel, Some Luck. With this
new book, Smiley returns to the
Iowa landscape that spawned her
best-known work, the Pulitzer
Prize-winning A Thousand Acres.
Jane
Smiley
1 P.M.
ENGLERT THEATRE
221 E. WASHINGTON ST.
FREE
A Day in the
City of Literature
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Celebrating Sir Walter Scott
200TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION OF SIR WALTER
SCOTT’S WAVERLEY NOVELS
Celebrate Sir Walter Scott’s Legacy in Iowa with a free literary and musical
performance of Scottish culture narrated by Alan Riach, Professor of Scottish
Literature at the University of Glasgow and Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished
Visiting Professor at The University of Iowa. This program will include readings,
music, songs, and dances from and inspired by Scott’s work. Musicians include
Scottish fiddler Jeremy Kittel, bagpipers Robert Gray and Ed Raber, soprano
Jennifer Macfarlane Haworth, and the Iowa City Crescendo Children’s Choir.
Scottish dancers hail from Iowa and Kansas. This program is made possible
due to funding from The University of Iowa’s Department of English and Ida
Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professorship.
3 P.M. | ENGLERT THEATRE | FREE
Roast of Iowa City 5
THE ANNUAL EXCLAMATION POINT on the Iowa City Book
Festival, laugh along as locals attempt to bring out the best in Iowa City by
dishing out their worst. Hosted by Little Village Editor Arashdeep Singh.
5 P.M. DOORS | THE MILL (120 E. BURLINGTON ST.) | FREE
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FEATURED Writers
Abdullah Al Wesali is a fiction writer
from Saudi Arabia and a participant in the
University of Iowa’s International Writing
Program.
Binayak Banerjee is a fiction writer,
poet, and playwright from India and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Jeff Biggers has worked as a writer and
educator across the United States, Europe,
India, and Mexico. His work has appeared
on NPR, and in the New York Times,Washington Post and elsewhere. Reckoning at Eagle
Creek is his latest book.
Marcus Burke had a knee injury that
led him, a standout athlete, to try fiction.
A graduate of the University of Iowa
Writers’ Workshop, his first novel is
Team Seven. He lives in Iowa City.
Marlon
James
Diego State University. Her newest col- Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist
lection is Hard Love Province.
who has been teaching English and creative writing at Macalester College since
Ali Cobby Eckermann is a poet from 2007. He is the author of The Book of
Australia and a participant in the Universi- Night Women and the new A Brief History
Siobhan Campbell is a poet whose ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program. of Seven Killings.
collections include Cross-Talk and That
Water Speaks in Tongues. She is editor of Cynthia Edul is a playwright and fiction Boaz Gaon is a playwright and fiction
Courage and Strength: Poems and Stories by writer from Argentina and a participant writer from Israel and a participant in the
Combat Stress Veterans. She is associate in the University of Iowa’s International University of Iowa’s International Writing
professor in English Literature/Creative Writing Program.
Program.
Writing at Kingston University London.
Auguste Corteau is a fiction writer, Assaf Gavron has published five novels
Edward Carey was born in Norfolk, playwright and translator from Greece and a collection of Jerusalem falafel-joint
England, and is the author of the novels and a participant in the University of Io- reviews. As a translator, Gavron is responObservatory Mansions and Alva and Irva: the wa’s International Writing Program.
sible for highly regarded English-to-HeTwins Who Saved a City. His most recent
brew translations of J.D. Salinger and Philrelease is the young adult book, Heap Eun Heekyung is a fiction writer from ip Roth. He is the editor of Tel Aviv Noir.
South Korea and a participant in the UniHouse.
versity of Iowa’s International Writing Robert Gutsche Jr. is a graduate of
Bernice Chauly is a poet, nonfiction Program.
the University of Iowa and an assistant
and fiction writer, playwright, and filmjournalism professor at Florida Internamaker from Malaysia and a participant Jessie Ann Foley is a Chicago Public tional University in Miami. He is the auin the University of Iowa’s International Schools English teacher who holds an thor of A Transplanted Chicago: Race, Place
MFA from Columbia College Chicago. and the Press in Iowa City.
Writing Program.
Her debut novel, The Carnival at Bray, won
Chi Li is a fiction writer from China and the 2014 Helen Sheehan YA Book Prize.
Alan Hayes is publisher of Arlen
a participant in the University of Iowa’s
House, one of Ireland’s oldest and most
Kathleen Founds teaches social-justice respected literary imprints and a member
International Writing Program.
themed English classes at Cabrillo College of the Management Group of Dublin
Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong in Watsonville, Calif., and writes while her UNESCO City of Literature. He founded
and raised in Oregon. Her books of poet- toddler is napping. Her latest book, When the Dublin Book Festival in 2008.
ry have become Asian American classics. Mystical Creatures Attack! received the 2014
She co-directs the MFA program at San John Simmons Short Fiction Award.
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Reyna
Grande
Reyna Grande is a novelist and
memoirist. Her latest book, The Distance
Between Us, is the 2014 selection in the
University of Iowa Center for Human
Rights’ One Community One Book
project. She teaches creative writing at
UCLA Extension.
Kinana Issa is a fiction writer and playwright from Syria and a participant in the
University of Iowa’s International Writing
Program.
Daren Kamali is a poet and performer from New Zealand and a participant
in the University of Iowa’s International
Writing Program.
Laurynas Katkus is a poet, fiction
writer, translator and essayist from Lithuania, and a participant in the University
of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Gerður Kristný is a fiction writer and
poet from Iceland and a participant in the
University of Iowa’s International Writing
Program.
Sabata-Mpho Mokae is a poet, nonfiction and fiction writer from South Africa and a participant in the University of
Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Peyton Marshall grew up near Washington, D.C. Before enrolling in the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop, Peyton spent many
years remodeling Craftsman-style homes.
Her work is rooted in ideas about love
and the potential brutalities of human life.
Goodhouse is her first novel.
Myay Hmone Lwin is a poet, fiction
writer and translator from Burma/Myanmar and a participant in the University of
Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Craig McDonald is an award-winning
journalist, editor and fiction writer. His
debut novel, Head Games, was selected
as a 2008 Edgar nominee for Best First
Novel by an American Author. His latest
is Forever’s Just Pretend.
Jon McGoran is the author of Drift, an
ecological thriller, and its sequel, Deadout.
Writing as D. H. Dublin, he is the author
of a series of forensic thrillers. He has
written about food and sustainability for
more than twenty years.
Martina Odonkor is a fiction writer from Ghana and a participant in the
University of Iowa’s International Writing
Program.
Hubert Pedroli is a financial services
industry consultant and an avid armchair
pilot. His novel, Joyrider, explores what is
behind the strange sightings in the skies
over a little Iowa town.
Scott Phillips is the author of three
of the most highly acclaimed crime novels
of recent years: The Ice Harvest, The Walkaway and Cottonwood. He lives in St. Louis
with his wife and daughter. His new novel
is Hop Alley.
Mujib Mehrdad is a poet, playwright
and translator from Afghanistan and a Andra Rotaru is a poet and journalparticipant in the University of Iowa’s In- ist from Romania and a participant in the
ternational Writing Program.
University of Iowa’s International Writing
Program.
June Melby is a widely published writer
who lives in Decorah. In 2002 she was the Sabah Sanhouri is a fiction writer from
winner of the Children’s Poetry Award at the Sudan and a participant in the University of
Edinburgh International Poetry Festival. Her Iowa’s International Writing Program.
new book is My Family and Other Hazards.
Enrique Serrano is a fiction writer from
Sadek Mohammed is a poet, trans- Colombia and a participant in the Universilator and scholar from Iraq and a partic- ty of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
ipant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
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FEATURED Writers
Ahmed Shafie is a poet, fiction writer
and translator from Egypt and a participant in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
Heather A. Slomski is the author of
The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons, winner of
the 2014 Iowa Short Fiction Award. She
received her MFA from Western Michigan University.She lives in Minnesota and
teaches writing at Concordia College.
Terrence
Holt
Stephen James Smith is a poet and
playwright from Dublin. His Dublin Fringe
play ‘Three Men Talking…’ was shortlisted for the Bewley’s Little Gem Award in
2011. Stephen is also a regular contributor to national TV and radio, and is director of LINGO, Ireland’s first spoken-word
poetry festival.
Terrence Holt is an American doctor
and writer as well as a former professor
Levi Stahl is the publicity manager of of literature at Rutgers University and
the University of Chicago Press. He has Swarthmore College. His new book,
reviewed books for the Chicago Read- Internal Medicine, offers stories from his
er and the Bloomsbury Review, He edited medical residency.
a new collection of the late Donald E.
Brian Switek is a freelance science
Westlake’s non-fiction, Getaway Car.
writer, author of the critically-acclaimed
Harry Stecopoulos is an associate book Written in Stone, and a paleontology
professor of English at the University of volunteer at the Natural History MuseIowa, where he teaches courses on mod- um of Utah. His latest book is My Beloved
ern U.S. literature, culture, and perfor- Brontosaurus.
mance, with specific interests in the novel,
Tang Siu Wa is a poet and essayist from
cultural studies, and postcolonial theory.
Hong Kong and a participant in the UniverSean Strub is an activist and writ- sity of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
er who has been HIV positive for more
than 33 years. He founded POZ magazine Natasha Tiniacos is a poet from Venand serves as the executive director of ezuela and a participant in the University
the Sero Project. He wrote Body Counts: of Iowa’s International Writing Program.
A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS and Survival.
Franca Treur is a fiction writer from
Mary Szybist is the author of Incarna- the Netherlands and a participant in the
dine, winner of the 2013 National Book University of Iowa’s International Writing
Award for Poetry. Her first book Grant- Program.
ed won the 2004 GLCA New Writers
Award and was a finalist for the National Drucilla Wall is a poet whose debut
collection is The Geese at the Gates. She
Book Critics Circle Award.
holds a doctorate in English from the Uni-
versity of Nebraska and is an associate
teaching professor and poet in residence
at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Eamonn Wall is author of six collections of poetry, most recently Sailing
Lake Mareotis. Junction City: Selected Poems
1990–2014 will be published in 2015. His
criticism includes Writing the Irish West:
Ecologies and Traditions.
Joseph Woods is a poet, editor and
former Director of Poetry Ireland. He
has published three collections of poetry,
Sailing to Hokkaido, Bearings and Ocean Letters. Woods was awarded the Katherine
and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship in 2014.
Paddy Woodworth is an author, journalist, lecturer and tour guide, and currently an adjunct senior lecturer in the
School of Languages and Literatures at
the University College Dublin. His latest
book is Our Once and Future Planet.
Yeow Kai Chai is a poet and fiction
writer from Singapore and a participant
in the University of Iowa’s International
Writing Program.
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A Day in the City of Literature
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BOOK AS ART/ART AS BOOK An upclose look at artist’s books and how we care
for them. University Conservator Giselle Simón
will also lead a tour of the lab.
11 A.M. | UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
LIBRARIES SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
AND CONSERVATION LAB (THIRD
FLOOR, UI MAIN LIBRARY, 125 W.
WASHINGTON ST.)
PhD candidate Andrew Williams to create a
multimedia profile of Communications Studies
professor Kembrew McLeod. The team will
present highlights and McLeod will read.
2 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA
CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
ASSAF GAVRON | TEL AVIV NOIR:
Gavron has published five, a collection of short
stories, and a non-fiction collection of Jerusalem
falafel-joint reviews. He co-edited the new
collection Tel Aviv Noir with Etgar Keret.
3 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS
READING ALOUD GROUP
READING: The poetry-reading group based
at the Senior Center will read poems selected
from the international anthology, A Book of
Luminous Things, edited by Czeslaw Milosz.
11:30 A.M. | IOWA CITY SENIOR
CENTER
MIKE YOUNG, GENE KWAK, MIKE
SCHLESINGER, DELANEY NOLAN,
AND ALICE GRIBBIN
Read from their poetry
RESCUE PRESS READING
Marc Rahe’s poetry collection is The Smaller
Half. Lauren Haldeman’s first poetry collection is
Calenday. Blueberry Morningsnow’s first poetry
collection is Whale in the Woods.
3 P.M. | RSVP
MARY POTTER KENYON
REFINED BY FIRE: A JOURNEY OF
GRIEF AND GRACE: Kenyon intimately
knows what it is to face grief. In the space
of three years she lost a mother, a husband,
and an eight-year-old grandson. NOON
CORALVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY
PAUL INGRAM | THE LOST
CLERIHEWS OF PAUL INGRAM
Legendary bookseller at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, Ingram has found what he
feared was long lost—his collection of humorous, intelligent, rollicking, and witty clerihews.
NOON | DEVOTAY
AILEEN STEWART | FERN VALLEY:
Fern Valley is home to a group of wonderful
animals who have fun and face some of the
same problems children everywhere do.
NOON | DULCINEA
JOHN IRA THOMAS | LOST IN THE
WASH: Thomas, of Candle Light Press, will
present his Indiefab award-winning comic series,
Lost in the Wash.
2 P.M. | DAYDREAMS COMICS
CITIZEN SCHOLARS WITH
KEMBREW MCLEOD
The University of Iowa Mobile App Development Team worked this summer with English
2 P.M. | RSVP
FROM PAGE TO PATHWAY:
CONNECTING TO OUR NATURAL
WORLD THROUGH PICTURE
BOOKS: Author/illustrator Claudia McGehee
will be joined by Biosphere Discovery Hub and
UI Museum of Natural history as she shares
her experiences illustrating and writing nature
focused picture books, and the inspirations
behind her work. 2:30 P.M. | UI MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY
PANEL: AT LANGUAGE’S EDGE
International Writing Program participants
Natasha Tiniacos (Venezuela) and Sabata-Mpho
Mokae (South Africa) join poet Marilyn Chin and
Waukon-based translator Mary Jane White in a
discussion about what it means to translate, and to
have their work translated into other languages.
3 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA
CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
LAUREN K. ALLEYNE
DIFFICULT FRUIT: Alleyne hails from the
twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago. She
is Poet-in-Residence and an assistant professor
of English at the University of Dubuque. Difficult Fruit is her new collection of poems.
3 P.M. | BEADOLOGY IOWA
BART YATES | THE THIRD HILL
NORTH OF TOWN: Yates gives instrument lessons in the Corridor and has taught
workshops at the University of Iowa’s Summer
Writing Festival. Among his books, the new The
Third Hill North of Town is a haunting, imaginative
story of human connection and coincidence.
3 P.M. | HIGH GROUND CAFÉ
ICE CUBE PRESS READING
Salvatore Marici, Quad Cities Poet Laureate, in
a discussion and reading from his new poetry
collection, Swish Swirl & Sniff, and Ice Cube
Press publisher and author, Steve Semken who
will talk about publishing and his new book, Soul
External: Rediscovering the Great Blue Heron.
3 P.M. | UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
HOT TIN ROOF: 2014 honorees will read
from their work. 3:30 P.M. | TRUMPET
BLOSSOM CAFÉ
SPANISH MFA: Poets and Writers from
the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing Programs
and the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, José Pablo Barragán, Giuseppe Caputo,
Patricia Gonzalo de Jesús, Martín López-Vega,
Beverly Pérez- Rego and Pedro Samper will
read their work in Spanish.
4 P.M. | PRAIRIE LIGHTS
PANEL: RELIGION AND WRITING
International Writing Program participants
Binayak Banerjee (India), Gerður Kristný
(Iceland), Enrique Serrano (Colombia), and
Abdullah Al Wesali (Saudi Arabia) discuss how
religious heritage shapes an author’s writing.
4 P.M. | MEETING ROOM A, IOWA
CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY
SARAH KOSCH AND BRENDEN
SPENGLER will read from their work.
4 P.M. | WHITE RABBIT
(112 S. LINN ST.)