Iowa City Poetry + PorchLight June Reading: Samuel Burt, Sandra Marchetti, Jenny Rowe

Join us Saturday, June 14, when Iowa City Poetry and PorchLight welcome award-winning poet Sandra Marchetti, Iowa Writer's Residency Winner Samuel Burt, and Iowa Writer's Residency Finalist Jenny Rowe. Expect light refreshments and to hear these three incredible writers read their work! Cosponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry.

Samuel Burt is a poet and artist from Grinnell, Iowa. The 2024 recipient of the Gwenn A. Nusbaum Scholarship from the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association and a 2022 winner of the AWP’s Intro Journals Project, Samuel’s poems have been featured in Salt Hill, OSU’s The Journal, Colorado Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, and many more print and digital journals. He holds a poetry MFA from Bowling Green State University, reads for Fahmidan Journal, and works at the Grinnell College Libraries.

Sandra Marchetti is the 2023 winner of The Twin Bill Book Prize for Best Baseball Poetry Book of the Year. She is the author of three…