Poetry in Public celebrates our community’s rich literary tradition and local writing talent by displaying poems by writers of all ages. Hear from some of the 2024 Selected Poets.

Featuring special guest Iowa Student Poet Ambassador Tanya Rastogi.

Presenting Poets:
Lucas Askelson, Big and Small
Melodee Bashir, A December Walk with Leo
Jacquelyn Bengfort,The Secret Universal Order of Adjectives
Dan Campion, An Evening Stroll
Maya Dahdaleh, Bombshell In My Marj Il Hamam, Amman
Alyssa Denneny, Plane Ride
Emily Ding, The Price We Pay
Ethan Ding, Crossroads
David Duer, In the Art Museum with Franklin, a Third Grader
Cecile Goding, Being of Sound Mind
Reed Hagan, Fuzzy Bees & Clovers
Jennifer Horn-Frasier, For My Fledglings
Evelyn Maiers, Earth
Jenna Mather, Haiku from the End of the World
Gaby Maymí, Hollowed
René Paine, Starling
Annabelle Pedersen, Your Presence is a Room in My Brain
Reeve Pedersen, Mind Killers
Rasmus Schlutter, Glass Genocide, Seven Lines for Palestine
Julie Watkins, Prayer for a Little Woman
April Xu, What If Everything Shattered

This event is part of the 2024 Iowa City Book Festival and is sponsored by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature.