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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T110000
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SUMMARY:Literary Magazine & Small Press Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Independent presses and magazines from across the country\, and right here in Iowa City\, will set up shop at The Mill in Iowa City for the 7th year in a row\, representing some of the most exciting work in publishing today\, including:\n\nMcSweeney's\nThe Believer\nPOETRY\nBlack Ocean\nSarabande Books\nThe Iowa Review\nCivil Coping Mechanisms\nSpork Press\nTwo Dollar Radio\nCanarium Books\nForklift\, Ohio\nUgly Duckling Presse\nAmerican Short Fiction\nCurbside Splendor\nAction Books\nTyrant Books\nGulf Coast Magazine\nfeatherpoof books\nRescue Press\ndraft: Journal of Process\nEntropy Magazine\nH_NGM_N\nPrompt Press\nDigraph Press
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/book-fair/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit
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DTSTAMP:20160414T201749
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SUMMARY:ICE CREAM Comic / Zine Fair
DESCRIPTION:Public Space One and Mission Creek Festival present ICE CREAM: The Iowa City Expo for Comics & Real Eclectic Alternative Media\, a fair presenting work of cartoonists\, zinesters\, and art books / handmade book artists. More than 30 artists with alternative comics\, zines\, handmade art books\, buttons\, patches\, prints\, and more.\n\n \n\nFeaturing:\n\nzencomix:\nThe Drift Plain Collective (Karen Carcia\, Kimberly Maher\, Elizabether Munger\, and Kalmia Strong\,)\n\nChicago Zine Fest (Alex Nall\, Josh Pettinger)\n\nKristin Roach/ Roach Motel Zine Distro\n\nRich Dana\, Obsolete Press\nDave Dugan\n\nViolet Virnig\n\nBecca Kacanda and Victor Cayro\n\n\nJonathan Sims\n\nRyan Bentzinger\n\nTyler Luetkehans\n\nRobert Kelsey\n\nKate Larson\n\nKevynne Wimberley\n\nRob Stephens\n\nKatie Armentrout\n\nFrances Cannon\n\nHans Gehrke\n\nBrock McConchie\n\n\nJared Jewell\n\nMegan Hindman\n\nMiigun\n\nJoseph Heuermann\n\nKate McDonough\n\nEric Bartholomew\n\nSamuel Benson\n\nBrady Wulf\n\n\nThe University of Madison Comics Club\n\nWill Santino\nRobert Kelsey
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/ice-cream-the-iowa-city-expo-for-comics-real-eclectic-alternative-media/
LOCATION:120 North Dubuque Street\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:& More,Lit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T133000
DTSTAMP:20160414T201749
CREATED:20160126T055709
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SUMMARY:A New History of the Essay w. John D'Agata
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Richard Preston and other guests tbd.\n\n \n\nFor two decades\, essayist John D’Agata has been exploring the contours of the essay through a series of innovative\, informative\, and expansive anthologies that have become foundational texts in the study of the genre. The breakthrough first volume\, The Next American Essay\,highlighted major work from 1974 to 2003\, while the second\, The Lost Origins of the Essay\,showcased the essay’s ancient and international forebears. Now\, with The Making of the American Essay\, D’Agata concludes his monumental tour of this inexhaustible form\, with selections ranging from Anne Bradstreet’s secular prayers to Washington Irving’s satires\, Emily Dickinson’s love letters to Kenneth Goldsmith’s catalogues\, Gertrude Stein’s portraits to James Baldwin’s and Norman Mailer’s meditations on boxing.\n\n \n\nAcross the anthologies\, D’Agata’s introductions to each selection—intimate and brilliantly provocative throughout—serve as an extended treatise\, collectively forming the backbone of the trilogy. He uncovers new stories in the American essay’s past\, and shows us that some of the most fiercely daring writers in the American literary canon have turned to the essay in order to produce our culture’s most exhilarating art.\n\n \n\nThe Making of the American Essay offers the essay at its most varied\, unique\, and imaginative best\, proving that the impulse to make essays in America is as old and as original as the nation itself.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/john-dagata-2/
LOCATION:15 South Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T180000
DTSTAMP:20160414T201749
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SUMMARY:Little Village Presents: Mission Boutique
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Mission Boutique will feature readings and music at four downtown boutiques on Saturday from 2 to 6 p.m. Featuring: Nat Baldwin\, Jamie Iredell\, Carola Dibbell\, Golden Birds\, Sarah Cram\, Christopher the Conquered\, and Jesse Nathan. FREE and open to the public!\n2 p.m. / @ RSVP\nSarah Cram - performance\nCarola Dibbell - reading\n\n3 p.m. / @ Catherine's\nJamie Iredell - reading\nChristopher the Conquered - performance\n\n4 p.m. / @ Shuster\nGolden Birds - performance\nJesse Nathan - reading\n\n5 p.m./ @ Revival\nNat Baldwin - reading + performance
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/mission-boutique-2016/
LOCATION:IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Music
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T170000
DTSTAMP:20160414T201749
CREATED:20160405T131955
LAST-MODIFIED:20160405T131955
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SUMMARY:Q&A: Saul Williams
DESCRIPTION:Open mic poet\, artist\, and activist Saul Williams will lead a Q&A session at Prairie Lights Bookstore. Moderated by writer and performance poet Akwi Nji.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/qa-saul-williams/
LOCATION:15 South Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T190000
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SUMMARY:Jenny Zhang
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Zhang is a poet\, writer\, and performer living in New York. She’s the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny\, We Are All Find. You can find her at jennybagel.com\, at her blog\, Fashion for Writers\, and on Twitter @jennybagel.\n\n \n\nZhang will also participate in the 7th Annual Lit Crawl at the Rookie Magazine/Iowa Youth Writing Project reading hosted at Beadology from 5:00-5:45pm on Friday\, April 8.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/jenny-zhang/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Supporting Acts
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T190000
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SUMMARY:Richard Siken w. Alexandra Kleeman\, Jenny Zhang\, & Jose Orduna
DESCRIPTION:Our annual book fair capstone reading this year features a lineup of four ridiculously talented authors. Headlining the event\, Mission Creek Festival’s 2016 Writer-in-Residence Richard Siken will cap off a few days of community outreach across Iowa City with his own time on stage. But before Richard takes the microphone\, Alexandra Kleeman will read from her much-lauded 2015 debut You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine\, we’ll welcome back to Iowa City the poetry of Jenny Zhang\, and Jose Orduna will give us a preview of his book A Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration & Displacement.\n\n \n\nRichard Siken is a poet\, painter\, filmmaker\, and an editor at Spork Press. He is a recipient of two Arizona Commission on the Arts grants\, two Lannan Residency Fellowships\, and a Literature Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of the collection Crush (Yale University Press\, 2005)\, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2004. His second book of poems\, War of the Foxes\, was released from Copper Canyon Press in 2015.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/richard-siken/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T200000
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Kleeman
DESCRIPTION:\n\n \n\nAlexandra Kleeman is a NYC-based writer of fiction and nonfiction\, and the 2016 winner of the Bard Fiction Prize. Her fiction has been published in The Paris Review\,  Zoetrope: All-Story\, Conjunctions\, Guernica\, and Gulf Coast\, among others. Nonfiction essays and reportage have appeared in Harper's\, Tin House\, n+1\, and The Guardian. Her work has received scholarships and grants from Bread Loaf\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Santa Fe Art Institute\, and ArtFarm Nebraska. She is the author of the forthcoming debut novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine (Harper\, 2015) and Intimations (Harper\, 2016)\, a short story collection.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/alexandra-kleeman/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Supporting Acts
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DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T200000
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SUMMARY:Jose Orduna
DESCRIPTION:José Orduña was born in Córdoba\, Veracruz\, and immigrated to Chicago with his mother when he was one-and-a-half years old. In December of 2010\, while attending the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program\, he applied for naturalization\, and in July 2011 he was sworn in as a United States citizen. He lives and works in Iowa City. His book\, The Weight of Shadows: A Memoir of Immigration and Displacement\, will be published on April 12th by Beacon Press. 
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/jose-orduna/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Supporting Acts
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SUMMARY:Carola Dibbell
DESCRIPTION:Carola Dibbell is a New York native who grew up in Greenwich Village and graduated from Radcliffe College. She participated in many women’s groups and actions before starting to publish journalism and fiction in the 70s. Her short stories have appeared in the Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, Fence\, and Black Clock. Introduced to rock criticism by her then future husband\, the critic Robert Christgau\, she was moved by its mix of amateurism\, literary ambition\, fandom\, and politics\, collaborated with him often\, and in her own work looked for common ground between feminism and gonzo. Her essay on women in punk appears in Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock and her reflections on the British punk group the Slits in the Ann Powers-Evelyn McDonnell anthology\, Rock She Wrote. Her debut novel\, The Only Ones\, was released in January of 2015. She has been married since 1974 to Christgau\, and they live with their daughter in the East Village.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/carola-dibbell/
LOCATION:112 South Linn Street\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Supporting Acts
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SUMMARY:Jamie Iredell
DESCRIPTION:Jamie Iredell lives in Atlanta with his wife and children.  His books are Last Mass\, I Was a Fat Drunk Catholic School Insomniac\, The Book of Freaks\, and Prose. Poems. a Novel. He teaches creative writing to college students\, and his own writing has been published in many magazines\, among them The Chattahoochee Review\, The Literary Review\, and The Rumpus.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/jamie-iredell/
LOCATION:402 E. Market St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52245\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Supporting Acts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T203000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20160409T230000
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SUMMARY:Saul Williams
DESCRIPTION:There is no one definitive profession in the diverse career of New York native Saul Williams. While finishing his MFA in Acting at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts\, Williams had immersed himself in open-mic poetry\, earning a lead role in the 1998 film Slam. Around this time he had also been breaking ground in music. He released his debut album Amethyst Rock Star in 2001\, produced by Rick Rubin. Williams has performed in over 30 countries and read in over 300 universities\, with invitations that have spanned from the White House\, the Sydney Opera House\, Lincoln Center\, The Louvre\, The Getty Center\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, to countless villages\, townships\, community centers\, and prisons across the world. In 2014\, he was the lead in the broadway musical Holler If Ya Hear Me\, inspired by the life and music of Tupac Shakur. Williams has released five studio albums and toured with artists such as Nine Inch Nails and The Mars Volta. His fifth studio album\, MartyrLoserKing\, due out in 2016\, follows a new world tour and to-be announced collaborations with several artists\, producers\, and writers.
URL:http://www.missionfreak.com/event/saul-williams-2/
LOCATION:120 E. Burlington St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lit,Music
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