Nina Lohman | The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain | Reading, Q&A, and Signing!

Name: Nina Lohman | The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain | Reading, Q&A, and Signing!
Start: 2025-04-28T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Pulpit Rock Brewing Company

Schedule

Mon, 28 Apr, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Pulpit Rock Brewing Company | Decorah, IA

Who: Nina Lohman
What: an evening celebrating her work, The Body Alone: A Lyrical Articulation of Chronic Pain
Where: Pulpit Rock Brewing events room
When: Monday, 4/28 at 7:00pm
Iowa City author Nina Lohman will give an author presentation and Q&A session followed by a book signing on Monday, April 28th, at 7pm in the Pulpit Rock Brewing events room at 207 College Dr., Decorah IA. Everyone is invited to this free event sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation, with support from Pulpit Rock Brewing and Dragonfly Books.
What does it mean to live in a body that hurts—a body that medicine struggles to name, that language fails to hold, that resists tidy explanations and refuses to conform to expected narratives of illness and recovery? When pain becomes a constant companion, shaping identity and experience, how does one articulate suffering in a world that so often dismisses or mistranslates it?
The Body Alone is an inquiry into the experience, meaning, and articulation of pain. It is a personal hybrid account incorporating research, scholarship, and memoir to examine chronic pain through the multi-lens of medicine, theology, and philosophy. Broken bodies tell broken stories. Nina Lohman’s pain experience is portrayed through a cyclical narrative of primers, vocabulary lessons, prescription records, and hypothesized internal monologues—fractured not for the sake of experimentation but because the story itself demands it. In both form and content, The Body Alone represents boundary-pressing work that subverts the traditional narrative by putting pressure on the medical, cultural, and political systems that impact women’s access to fair and equal healthcare. This is more than an illness narrative, it is a battle cry demanding change.
Nina Lohman is the founder and publisher of Brink, a literary journal that champions hybrid and cross-genre works. She is the Literary Programming Director for the Mission Creek Festival. A 2023 Iowa Artist Fellow, her writing has been supported by the Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Iowa Arts Council. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.