Fostering community through the literary arts
A Book Launch reading for Vi Khi Nao, including guests Laura Paul and Steve Barbaro
Sat, Sep 20
|Iowa City
Join us to launch Vi Khi Nao's new book "My Ardent Love for the Pencil," featuring guest readers Laura Paul and Steve Barbaro
Time & Location
Sep 20, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
Laura Paul is the author of Film Elegy, which was released in 2024 from PRROBLEM Press and is now on its second printing. Her forthcoming book, Total Art, will be released in October 2025 from Lavender Ink. She lives in Chicago and works at the Poetry Foundation.
Steve Barbaro is the author of PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE. His poems & fiction appear in such venues as 3:AM & Conjunctions & The Yale Review & Denver Quarterly & the CYBERNETICS, OR GHOSTS? anthology. A first-generation American of Sicilian descent, Steve is also the editor & designer & publisher of new_sinews.
VI KHI NAO is the author of seven poetry collections & of the short stories collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture (winner of the 2016 FC2's Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize), the novel, Swimming with Dead Stars. Her poetry collection, The Old Philosopher, won the Nightboat Books Prize for Poetry in 2014. Her book, Suicide: the Autoimmune…