
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 magazine, Gettysburg 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 Cutleaf. A 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.