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Davenport Central junior Lola Nakashima-Brooke will be inaugurated Friday, April 28, at the State Capitol as the Iowa Student Poet Ambassador (ISPA) for 2023-24. The ceremony at the Law Library in the Capitol at 10 a.m. — part of National Poetry Month — will include representatives from partner organizations. Iowa Poet Laureate Debra Marquart, outgoing […]
The Washington Public Library is continuing its tradition of noontime concerts with a virtual event next week.
Library Director Bryna Walker says this performance is provided by the University of Iowa’s Arts Share program which coordinates workshops and performances in underserved communities across Iowa, “The quartet is called, the acronym is YANA, and it’s an acronym meaning You Are Not Alone and this is a group that is under a professor Elizabeth Oakes at the University of Iowa and it consists of four highly artistic doctoral students in the musical arts. So we are going to record them and then we’ll have it on our YouTube and we’ll be putting it on our Facebook on May 18th at noon. So we’re kind of keeping it consistent with a noon concert each month.”