Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumna Regan Good will read from The Atlantic House at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 13, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

In 2001, Good received a Poetry Fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. Her chapbooks The Imperfect (Westown Press) and The Book of Nature (Ugly Duckling Presse) appeared in 2005 and 2009, respectively. The Atlantic House (Harry Tankoos Books, 2011) is her first book.

Taking its inspiration from the thousands of shipwrecks surrounding Cape Cod, Mass., The Atlantic House examines the waste and wreckage that mark the very beginnings of our nationhood, discovering in this uneasy detritus a consonance with the sandy traps of the striving self. While ships silently and steadily rot around the coastline, dry land burgeons and swirls with activity.

“Good’s poems weave a dense, searing, beautiful music, their rounded (and rounding) cadences offset by spiky intrusions of the mind needling along the surface-seams of dread and memory,” says Emily Wilson, poet and fellow Writers’ Workshop alumna. “Their yearning compels the reader through a spiraling interior bower that is haunted and complicated by essential loneliness.”

The Iowa Writers’ Workshop is a graduate program in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

For more information or special accommodations to attend this reading, call Jan Weissmiller at Prairie Lights, 319-337-2681. For a UI arts calendar and details about upcoming events visit the new Arts Iowa website.