Kerri Webster and Joseph Campana, winners of the 2011 Iowa Poetry Prize from the University of Iowa Press, will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in Prairie Lights Books and on a Virtual Writing University live stream.

Webster was honored for Grand & Arsenal, and Campana’s winning collection is Natural Selections. Both books were published during the spring of 2012, and are available from the UI Press or at bookstores.

Webster, who received her Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, is the author of a previous full-length collection, We Do Not Eat Our Hearts Alone, as well as two chapbooks. She has taught at Boise State University, was writer in residence at Washington University in St. Louis for four years, and now lives in her native Idaho.

Campana teaches Renaissance literature at Rice University. His poems have appeared in Slate, the Kenyon Review, Poetry, Conjunctions, the Colorado Review, and many other venues.

His first book of poetry, The Book of Faces, was published in 2005, and he is also the author of The Pain of Reformation: Spenser, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Masculinity, published this year. He holds a doctorate from Cornell University.

The Iowa Poetry Prize was first awarded in 1990. Originally called the Edwin Ford Piper Poetry Award, the series was renamed with the 1993 award. Until 2001, the award honored only writers who had already published at least one book of poetry; the award is now open to new writers as well.

Books in this series have also won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

For a UI arts calendar and details on upcoming events, visit the new Arts Iowa website. For accommodations at the live event, contact jan@prairielights.com.