Dan Beachy-Quick and Sally Keith, alumni of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the UI Writing University website.

Beachy-Quick is the author of five collections of poems, most recently Circle's Apprentice, and A Whaler’s Dictionary, a collection of essays about Moby Dick. His poems have appeared widely in literary journals, including the Boston Review, the New Republic, Fence, Poetry, Chicago Review, VOLT, the Colorado Review, Paris Review, and New American Writing. He has taught writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and currently he is an assistant professor of English at Colorado State University.

Keith has published three books of poetry:Dwelling Song, Design (which won the Colorado Prize for Poetry in 2000), and most recently, The Fact of the Matter. She has published individual poems in journals and anthologies, including Colorado Review, Conjunctions, New American Writing, and A Public Space. She has been awarded fellowships to the BreadLoaf Writers’ Conference, a Pushcart Prize, and the Denver Quarterly’s Lynda Hull Award. She is on faculty in the Department of English at George Mason University.

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.