On Wednesday, October 9 at 7:00 p.m., join poet Teresa Dzieglewicz at the Iowa City Public Library for a reading and conversation around her debut collection, Something Small of How to See a River, winner of the Dorset Prize.
Selected by Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Tyehimba Jess, this collection interrogates who gets to tell a story—and what happens when the “official” stories told by those in power are dishonest or incomplete. Through poems that grapple with systemic failure, environmental destruction, and unacknowledged whiteness, Dzieglewicz illuminates the strength, care, and radical joy of the Standing Rock movement, affirming it as an act of resilience rather than defeat.
Dzieglewicz is a poet, educator, and Black Earth Institute Fellow, as well as a Poet-in-Residence at the Chicago Poetry Center. Her work has been widely published and recognized with numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize and the Palette Poetry Prize. She also co-founded Mni Wichoni Nakicizin Wounspe (Defenders of the Water School) and organizes projects centered on rivers, prairies, and community.
