The Writing University

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Grigor Shashikyan (Armenia) andRoxana Crisólogo (Peru/Finland). They will be accompanied by Iowa Writers' Workshop Poetry student Warren Longmire.

Grigor Shashikyan Գրիգոր Շաշիկյան (pen name Grig) Գրիգ (fiction writer, literary critic; Armenia) is the author of three books, two of which — Հիսուսի կատուն [Jesus' Cat] (2015) and Friedensdorf [Peace Village] (2023) — have been bestselling...

Writers' Workshop graduate Stephen Kuusisto will read from his third poetry collection, Close Escapes, and will be in conversation with Iowa International Writing Program director Christopher Merrill. Described by publisher Copper Canyon Press as "[moving] through a river of memory," Close Escapes drifts through "time and place—Tallinn, New York, a Velamo monastery—[and] our anchor is the poet, navigating a sightless world with intelligence and dark humor" (coppercanyonpress.org). Praised by...