EVENTS
DSM Book Festival
Des Moines Book Festival @ Capital Square
Saturday, March 26 from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
The Des Moines Book Festival connects people who love books with the people who create them, and features nationally acclaimed...
AViD Author
Angeline Boulley | The Firekeeper’s Daughter
@ DSM Book Festival — Capital Square
On Saturday, March 26, at 5 PM, Angeline Boulley will speak as one of the headlining authors at the DSM...
Meet the Author
Dan Hunter | Pandemic Panacea
@ Artisan Gallery 218
Join us at Artisan Gallery 218 in Valley Junction as Iowa native Dan Hunter shares his new book, Pandemic Panacea....
Meet the Author
Justin Martin | Genius of Place, The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted
@ Waveland Golf Course Lodge
Des Moines Founders Garden Club presents OLMSTED 200 WEEK: Celebrating Parks for All People The Genius of Place, The Life...
Meet the Author
Sarah Noll Wilson | Don’t Feed the Elephants: Overcoming the Art of Avoidance to Build Powerful Partnerships
You see the giant footprints the moment you walk through the door. The conference room is a swirling mess of...
Meet the Poets
Daniel Khalastchi & Marc Rahe | American Parables & Gravity Well
American Parables—Daniel Khalastchi’s award-winning third collection of poetry—provides an uncompromising exploration into the political and societal disturbances facing America today....
Meet the Author
Wes Pranschke | Little Ben and the Old Man in the House
Little Ben discovers that the Old Man in the scary house is not exactly as he seems. About the...
Meet the Poet
Paul Brooke | The Skald and the Drukkin Tröllaukin
Dr. Paul Brooke's writing has been featured in such journals as the North American Review, The Antioch Review, Rocky Mountain...
Meet Three Poets
Laura Johnson, Hannah Soyer, & Dawn Terpstra | Memento Vivere, The Ending Hasn’t Happened Yet, & Songs from the Summer Kitchen
@ Artisan Gallery 218
Memento Vivere by Laura Johnson In Memento Vivere, a tiny volume of rebellion against death, Cedar Rapids poet Laura Johnson...
Book-Signing
Roxanne Conlin | Unstoppable: The Nine Lives of Roxanne Barton Conlin
Unstoppable is the first in-depth biography of Roxanne Barton Conlin, who rose from a difficult childhood where she faced an...
AViD Author
Amanda Montell | Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
@ Central Library
Language scholar and author Amanda Montell will appear at Central Library on Thursday, April 21 at 7 PM to discuss...
Booksigning
David Mosinski | Life Lessons and Lost Wars
Enlightening accounts from a US Army soldier covering an unusual range of assignments, training events, operations, military intelligence work, and...