What a great event the Iowa City Book Festival was! In its second year, this time there were three days of activities, including one focused on downtown. Mark at Active Endeavors reports an increase in traffic and sales. "The Book Festival was a hit, and well attended!"
r.s.v.p., another downtown business located in the Near Northside, hosted UI Graduate Kiki Petrosino, who read new poems. Kiki was born in Baltimore and received her BA from the University of Virginia. She spent two years in Switzerland teaching English and Italian at a private school, after which she earned graduate degrees from both the University of Chicago and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her poem, "You Have Made a Career of Not Listening," was featured in the anthology Best New Poets 2006 (Samovar Press), and other poems have appeared in FENCE, The Iowa Review, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. Kiki presented her poems at a podium in front of a display photos created by Tom Langdon. Tom's exhibit, Writers of the World featured portraits and photographic broadsides of visiting poets and writers from the UI International Writing Program.
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