Rooftop Music and Reading Series

Join us on the deck of MarketHouse for an evening of music, poetry, and prose. The Rooftoop Music & Reading Series brings together some of Iowa's most exciting artists for a one-of-a-kind collaborative program. Bring a buddy, date, or come alone. Stay for the gorgeous views, drinks and good company Becca Klaver is a writer, teacher, editor, scholar, and collaboration conjurer. She is the author of the poetry collections LA Liminal (Kore Press, 2010), Empire Wasted (Bloof Books, 2016), and Ready for the World (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), as well as several chapbooks. Her latest publications are Midwinter Constellation (Black Lawrence, 2022), a collaborative homage to Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day, and Greetings from Bowling Green (The Magnificent Field, 2022), a chapbook of postcard poems. Her scholarly writing appears in Humanities, College Literature, Jacket2, and elsewhere. As an editor, she co-founded Switchback Books, co-edited the anthology Electric Gurlesque (Saturnalia Books), and created group projects such as Women Poets Wearing Sweatpants. Becca has taught poetry in many settings across the U.S., from elementary schools to MFA programs to community workshops. She lives in Iowa City, where she used to work for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival and continues to organize All Fours Group Chat, a feminist conversation meetup.