Martine Bellen, Iris Marble Cushing, Magus Magnus, and Joshua Ware will read as part of the Furniture Press Books poetry tour at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City. The reading also will be streamed live on the University of Iowa Writing University website.

Eric Lundgren will read from his comic and existential novel "The Facades" at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 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.

Robin Sloan will read from his novel "Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore," at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 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.

Peter Kaufman will read from "Skull in the Ashes: Murder, a Gold Rush Manhunt, and the Birth of Circumstantial Evidence in America," a book recently published by the University of Iowa Press, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, in a free reading at Prairie Lights Books in downtown Iowa City.

Poets Chris Bolin, Nathan Hoks, and Roger Reeves will read from their work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 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.

University of Iowa English education professors Bonnie Sunstein and Amy Shoultz, both with years of experience teaching English in classrooms, share what’s new, what’s the same, and what Kate Turabian would think in The Chicago Manual of Style Online's monthly feature, Shop Talk.

Steve Duck, professor of communication studies, weighs in on the question, "What was the greatest speech, historical or fictional, ever given?"

What does the reading public lose when a book is removed from the shelves? Writers from Burma/Myanmar, Pakistan, Panama, and Portugal—in Iowa City for the International Writing Program fall residency—will team up with Iowa City librarians for a public discussion on censorship Sept. 26.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development have established a Humanities Advisory Board to advise them on humanities issues, stimulate collaboration among humanities faculty, leverage resources in support of humanities scholarship, and identify areas of interdisciplinary research.

Kate Greenstreet, John Gallaher, and Richard Meier will read from their poetry at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, 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.