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colvillejen
Aug 15, 20241 min read
News and happenings from the Porch: Join us for a Generative Weekend!
Dear PorchLighters, The Writing Garden project continues this weekend with a planting and generative writing session led by Tricia...
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colvillejen
Jul 24, 20241 min read
Join us for Music, Words & Views to support PorchLight
Dear Friends, One of our goals at PorchLight is to offer a space for writers to interact, perform with, and learn from artists working in...
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colvillejen
Jun 13, 20242 min read
Summer at PorchLight & PorchLight Recommends
Dear PorchLighters, You may have seen our posts about PorchLight's new Rooftop Reading series, to be rolled out over four...
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colvillejen
May 3, 20241 min read
Greetings from the Porch!
Dare I say that May is the most generous month? I just retrieved a May basket hanging from PorchLight's front door nob. So I will say it...
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colvillejen
Mar 23, 20242 min read
News from the Porch + PorchLight Recommends
Hello Friends! It's the time of the year for the tiny but mighty scilla siberica to pop up all over the PorchLight lawn, and I'm happy to...
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colvillejen
Jan 24, 20242 min read
PorchLight Winter Newsletter: A Programming Survey, Writing Consultants + PorchLight Recommends
Dear friends of PorchLight, We’ve slowed down our events this January, offering just the usuals, The Free Gen ( a wonderful evening with...
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colvillejen
Oct 24, 20231 min read
Join us, starting this Sunday, for "Both/And"
"When we are awake and alive to the nuances of the world, we see that most things contain so-called dichotomies – lightness and darkness,...
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colvillejen
Oct 2, 20232 min read
New Classes, New Member Incentives & an Open house Party!
Hello friends! We are delighted to report that our first Misfit Master class, in collaboration with Iowa City Poetry, is going strong!...
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colvillejen
Aug 24, 20231 min read
Back to School with PorchLight
Dear PorchLight Community, As summer draws to a close and the leaves start to turn, we want to update you on some developments at...
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colvillejen
May 25, 20232 min read
Summer Newsletter + Membership Drive
Greetings, PorchLight Community! First, we would like to thank the City of Iowa City for granting PorchLight the special designation of...
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colvillejen
Apr 7, 20231 min read
PorchLight Recommends: A Brief Guide to Mission Creek Literary Events
LIT WALK TONIGHT! Mission Creek literary madness is upon us. Join PorchLight tonight at 5:00 at RSVP, as we host a stellar stop on the...
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colvillejen
Jan 12, 20232 min read
PorchLight Recommends: Our very own "Local Writer's Forum"
Since opening PorchLight many of you have reached out with questions about the writing process, finding editors, finding local critique...
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colvillejen
Nov 2, 20222 min read
PorchLight Recommends: Anne Lamott at the Englert & the Mic Check Poetry Festival
Two weeks ago I started digging into the Anne Lamott oeuvre, and I'm finding myself so charmed by her mixture of cranky honesty, insight...
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colvillejen
Oct 25, 20222 min read
PorchLight Recommends
"The Weir" and "A Devil's Night Reading" I've just two pieces of literary culture to recommend this week. Both offerings speak to the act...
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colvillejen
Sep 28, 20222 min read
PorchLight Recommends
Greetings from the Porch! The acorns are falling from the trees and so are the literary events. If you would like to catch a few, here...
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colvillejen
Sep 10, 20221 min read
PorchLight Recommends
Well, here I go tooting my own horn and recommending "Prompt for the Planet: Community Creates" as the perfect solo, date or family...
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colvillejen
Jun 28, 20223 min read
Experience Summertime at PorchLight
Hello, hello! I see PorchLight as a place for retreat and contemplation, for sparking the wild writing mind, and for facilitating...
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colvillejen
Apr 26, 20221 min read
PorchLight Recommends
Dear readers, We've got three treats to recommend this week. I'll keep it short because it's all so sweet! First up, and for High school...
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colvillejen
Mar 17, 20222 min read
PorchLight Recommends
A Review by Cecile Goding Eleanor Burgess's play The Niceties focuses on a scenario that will be all too familiar to many of us—a student...
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colvillejen
Jan 31, 20222 min read
PorchLight Recommends
Dear Friends, Welcome to the first installment of PorchLight Recommends, a blog in which our PorchLight team, and esteemed friends get to...
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