Poet Sarah Lindsay will read from her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, 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.

Lindsay is an American poet from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In addition to writing two chapbooks, Bodies of Water and Insomniac's Lullabye, Lindsay has authored two books in the Grove Press Poetry Series: Primate Behavior (a National Book Award finalist) and Mount Clutter. Her work has been featured in magazines such as The Atlantic, the Georgia Review, the Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, Parnassus, and Yale Review. Her most recent book of poetry, Twigs and Knucklebones, was selected as a "Favorite Book of 2008" by Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine.

Lindsay graduated from St. Olaf College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and creative writing, and holds an Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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.