
Fostering community through the literary arts
A Book Party and Reading with Poet Jennifer McBain-Stevens
Sun, Nov 12
|Iowa City
Come celebrate the release of "Pool Parties," the newest poetry collection from Jennifer MacBain-Stephens. Poets Christopher Eck and Cory Hutchinson-Reuss will be reading as well! Short Q and A to follow.


Time & Location
Nov 12, 2023, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Iowa City, 1019 E Washington St, Iowa City, IA 52240, USA
Guests
About the event
About the Book:
In a post pandemic world, how do we rebuild what is broken? Pool Parties dives into dinosaurs, pop culture, hospital beds, barnacles, geology, and the soil of the midwest to dig through and sift our aching to heal psyche. Found poems about crystals, Sabrina the teenage witch, and building trails are just some of the topics of these playful yet sometimes dark poems. Once shielding ourselves from the world in tiny boxes, we now long to break the glass, feel the sun, and one another, but it is scary. Try to connect we must, if we fail, we must fail better. What rooms are our safe spaces? From Ranch for Sale, As is: “In the god trees you disappeared into Port wine and too many off ramp brown eye role playing games. My heart in a 1960s ranch style basement. Thought you’d come in, shake out the…