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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 27/09/2026

Join us this afternoon at 4 pm for our next Iowa International Writing Program Sunday Afternoon Reading Series!

Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 23/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a double-reading by U of Iowa professors Kathy Lavezzo & William Rhodes. Both will be joined in conversation with Sarah E. Bond!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 21/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Peter Bognanni and conversation with Daniel Khalastchi!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 20/09/2026

Join us this afternoon at 4 pm for our next Iowa International Writing Program Sunday Afternoon Reading Series!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 18/09/2026

Join us tonight at 6:30 pm for a virtual (Zoom) reading featuring Nancy Sowell and Melissa Febos! Register here: prairielights.com/event/2026-0...

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 17/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Camille T. Dungy and conversation with Donika Kelly!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 16/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a poetry reading by Luis Muñoz and featuring Garth Greenwell and Donika Kelly!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 15/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Sara Levine and conversation with Cate Dicharry !

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 13/09/2026

...and again at 4 pm for our next Sunday Afternoon Reading Series, featuring current residents of the Iowa International Writing Program and 3rd year MFA Iowa Playwright candidate, Darrin Terpstra!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 13/09/2026

Join us first at 2 pm this afternoon for a reading by Emily Galvin Almanza!...

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 11/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Lizzie Buehler and conversation with Julia Conrad!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 10/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Patricia Albers and conversation with Garth Greenwell!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 09/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by translator Tabatha Leggett, who will be joined in conversation with Jan Steyn!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 08/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Chris Vinsonhaler!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 06/09/2026

Join us this afternoon at 4 pm for our next Iowa International Writing Program Sunday Afternoon Reading Series!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 04/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Giano Cromley!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 03/09/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Will Boast and conversation with Kevin Allardice!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 30/08/2026

Join us this afternoon at 4 pm for our first IWP reading of 2026!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 26/08/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Matthew Neill Null!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 17/08/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Asha Bhandary!

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Justin Jacobs @justinjacobs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Thanks @colsonwhitehead.com for signing copies of Cool Machine for @prairielights.com! Going to enjoy reading this poolside.

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 22/07/2026

Join us tonight at 6:30 (please note the earlier time) for a special reading by the faculty of the summer Rogue Workshops! Learn more at: www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/rogue-...

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 21/07/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Sarah Minor and conversation with Melissa Febos!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 20/07/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Meg Richardson and conversation with Claire Lombardo !

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 17/07/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Will Swain!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 14/07/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by David & Rose Donovan!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 09/07/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Susan McCarty!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 22/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Karen Parkman!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 19/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Randee Fieselmann!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 18/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Gary Paul Nabhan!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 14/06/2026

Even though we don't have a reading today, we hope you'll support author Peggy Timm (her book, Childhood Cancer, is upstairs on our local authors shelf), and we'll try to reschedule her as soon as possible!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 12/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Leah Eskin and conversation with Hannah Agran!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 09/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Evelyn Carter and conversation with Kelly Danaher!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 01/06/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Melissa Febos and conversation with Donika Kelly!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 29/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Eva Adderley!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 28/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Julie Schumacher and conversation with Louisa Hall!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 27/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Tom Lin and conversation with Thomas Mira y Lopez!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 26/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Paige Lewis and conversation with Tom Lin! (Get here early if you can--we're expecting a full house!)

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 22/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Alice Martin!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 14/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Barry Markovsky!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 13/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Mitchell L.H. Douglas and conversation with Lauren Haldeman!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 11/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Uchenna Awoke and conversation with Reyumeh Ejue!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 07/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm at the Englert Theatre for a reading by Jeffrey Winters and conversation with Ben Kieffer!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 06/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for the University of Iowa's Spanish and Portuguese MFA Graduate reading!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 05/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Anna Barker and conversation with DK Nnuro (*apologies for the misspelling of DK's last name on our event slide!*)

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 04/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Kevin T. Mason and conversation with IPR's Charity Nebbe!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 01/05/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Betsy Rubiner and conversation with Veronica Lorson Fowler!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 30/04/2026

Author Lisa Graves had to cancel her reading with us tonight, but we will try to reschedule her very soon! Please see prairielights.com/events for more of our upcoming readings.

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 29/04/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Angela Pelster!

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Prairie Lights Books @prairielights.com · 28/04/2026

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a reading by Tisa Bryant!

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