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Visiting Author Reading with Iowa writers Margaret Yapp and Keith Pilapil Lesmeister followed by Community Open Mic - Free and open to the public

Join us for a magnificent reading featuring two visiting Iowa writers (Margaret Yapp and Keith Pilapil Lesmeister) followed by a community open mic

Friday, November 1, 7pm

Metaphysical Graffiti Bookstore, 119 W Court St, Viroqua, WI 54665

Margaret Yapp is from Iowa City, Iowa. She works as the managing editor at  Prompt Press and runs Rampage Party Press, an ongoing hand-printed  broadside project and poetry magazine. She has an MFA in poetry from the  Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is currently an MFA candidate at the  University of Iowa Center for the Book. Her debut book of poems, Green for Luck,  is out now from EastOver Press. You can read more at Margaret’s website  which is margaret yapp dot com / instagram @bigbabymarg.

Keith Pilapil Lesmeister is the author of the fiction chapbook Mississippi River Museum (WTAW Press, 2023) and the story collection We Could’ve Been Happy Here (MG Press, 2017). His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, december magazineGettysburg Review, New Stories from the Midwest, North American Review, Redivider, SLICE, Terrain.org, and many others. His nonfiction has appeared in The Good Men Project, River Teeth, Sycamore Review, Tin House Open Bar, Water~Stone Review, and elsewhere. He received his M.F.A. from the Bennington Writing Seminars and serves as editor of CutleafA 2023-25 Rural Regenerator Fellow through Springboard for the Arts, he currently lives in Iowa’s Driftless region.


Sign Up to read at the open mic!
If you would like to read during the open mic portion, please email the Driftless Writing Center at driftlesswritingcenter@gmail.com with the subject line “in-person open mic” to sign up for a 5-minute slot.  This is an in-person event.


At the Driftless Writing Center, we believe everyone has a story to tell. We commit ourselves to confronting discrimination and oppression and to removing barriers to learning, writing, and sharing, so that everyone’s story can be heard.

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PO Box 403

Viroqua, WI 54665

driftlesswritingcenter@gmail.com

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