Prairie Lights is a great bookstore in the center of Iowa City, the home of The University of Iowa and its various MFA programs in writing. The bookstore's "Live from Prairie Lights" series features writers who are visiting or working on campus. The shows are broadcast on WSUI, AM 910, and they are now archived on this NPR station's website. There are hundreds more hour-long readings from current authors archived. I'd rank Prairie Lights bookstore and the "Live from Prairie Lights" radio broadcast as two of the very best things about living in Iowa City.
Gina Franco reads poems from her 2004 book, The Keepsake Storm, in the June 22, 2004 broadcast of "Live from Prairie Lights." We're reading this book the last few weeks of American Women Poets. You can find the link to the stream here. (You'll need the Realplayer to stream the real audio (.ram / .ra ) files.)
