Join us at Franklin Event Center for the Second Annual Banned Books Fair as we celebrate the Freedom to Read. 

Local nonprofit Poetry Palooza presents “Poetry & Film,” an interactive evening of spoken word poetry.

Join CCI Action and author Jennifer Berkshire for a conversation on what we can do together to win honest, equitable, and fully-funded public education here in Iowa.

Support the Des Moines Public Library and enjoy an evening celebrating literacy and Iowa authors. The memorable event includes dinner, the recitation of the Library Bill of Rights, and remarks by award-winning authors.

Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country's most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world--and our own souls--and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.

Lushly written and philosophically hard-hitting, A Natural History of Empty Lots by
Christopher Brown is a genre-bending blend of naturalism, memoir, and social manifesto for rewilding the
city, the self, and society.

Mary Swander is an award-winning writer of drama, poetry and nonfiction with a national and international reputation.

midst the vast changes that have occurred over the years, Love Is My Favorite Flavor underscores the timelessness of what it is we seek when we entrust restaurateurs with our hard-earned money and our hard-won leisure time.

Through the prayers and poems in Vessels of Love, Joyce Rupp addresses a variety of topics related to the last decades of life.

The Wilderlands is a dark fantasy story inspired by oral tales like Beowulf and The Epic of Gilgamesh and is the author's first adult fantasy novel.

A unique new band is poised to take over the world-at-war. Azul writes about it all in The Bastard Chronicle, in her hilarious voice, as her past, present, & future collide in a coming-of-age story never told before in an era of the music scene when anything was possible.