IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series (last of 2025)

Name: IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series (last of 2025)
Start: 2025-10-19T16:00:00-05:00
Location: 15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240

Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

15 S Dubuque St, Iowa City, IA, United States, Iowa 52240 | Iowa City, IA

Please join us for our annual IWP Sunday Afternoon Reading Series! This week’s event features IWP Residents Grigor Shashikyan (Armenia) and Roxana Crisólogo (Peru/Finland). They will be accompanied by Iowa Writers' Workshop Poetry student Warren Longmire.
Grigor Shashikyan Գրիգոր Շաշիկյան (pen name Grig) Գրիգ (fiction writer, literary critic; Armenia) is the author of three books, two of which — Հիսուսի կատուն [Jesus' Cat] (2015) and Friedensdorf [Peace Village] (2023) — have been bestselling books in Armenia for years. He has received more than a dozen national and international awards, the most notable of which include: “Youth Prize of the President of the Republic of Armenia,” “HOTLIST independent publishers competition,” and “Coburger Rückert-Preis.” He is currently working on a collection of short stories. His participation is made possible thanks to the generous support of Hugh F. Culverhouse, Jr. and other donations made to the International Writing Program.
Roxana Crisólogo's (poet, translator, and cultural worker; Peru/Finland) recent books, Dónde dejar tanto ruido and Kauneus [Beauty], both in their third editions, explore language, migration, and the consequences of ecological and mental crises. She gives her migrant characters a sharp, persistent perspective, challenging paternalistic optimism. In 2013, she founded Sivuvalo in Helsinki, a platform dedicated to promoting Finnish literature abroad through translation and supporting immigrant writers in Finland. She has been a Kone Foundation Fellow for projects such as Is This Finnish Literature? and New Havens & Humanoids. Her participation is made possible by a gift from the estate of William B. Quarton.
Warren C. Longmire is a Negro poet, performer, and technologist from North Philadelphia. A co-founder of the Excelano Project Spoken Word Collective, his work has appeared in publications including Action, Spectacle, Cartridge Lit, The Offing, and The American Poetry Review. Warren was featured in The Best American Poetry 2021 (selected by Tracy K. Smith) and A Black Philadelphia Reader: African American Writings About the City of Brotherly Love. His latest book, Bird/Diz [an erased history of bebop], was published by Bunny Presse in 2022. He is currently completing his MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.