reader Photos

Welcome to Little Village’s 2022 Reader-Submitted Photo Issue

The next 13 pages are packed with photos submitted by our readers (as well as two staff members). Little Village has taken care not to crop, edit or change the images in any way. Submitted captions have been edited for style, length and clarity.

“Recently I have become fascinated with the vultures that gather in the summer months at the Coralville reservoir. Though associated with death, these birds are clearly intelligent, with unique markings and personalities that make them easy to distinguish from one another, if you’re looking—not unlike human beings.” —Jonathan Hansen

Clockwise from top left: Johnny Brian, UP4014 conductor, Mason City; Ben Partridge, untitled; Cameron Johnson, BLM protest 2020; rachel Loberg, Midwest barn; Pete Hendley, Amish buggy in a snowy field; Tyler Erickson, Reframing memories from my youth, Southwest Iowa; Cameron Johnson, Iran protest 2020; Pete Hendley, Two Amish women and horse

Clockwise from top left: Jarrett Leake, Windmill on the corner of Taft and 560th, Lone Tree; Tyler Erickson, Reframing memories from my youth, Southwest Iowa; Pete Hendley, BLM protest 2020; Tyler Erickson (top to bottom right), Reframing memories from my youth, Southwest Iowa; Johnny Brian, A Boy and His Dog; amir Prellberg, Sean Tyler; Luc Puis, Lake MacBride during the deep-freeze winter of January 2020; Chad rhym, To the man on the bike in my favorite neighborhood

Clockwise from top left: Jav Ducker, An industrial winter dusk, February 2021, Quaker Oats; Jane Kirsch, Calvin Hall hideaway; Jack Bassett, Bus terminal skywalk in downtown Cedar Rapids; Pete Flynn, Wet floor, caution; Jason Smith, Cobravette in transit on Gilbert Street Brian Johannesen, Winter view in Big Grove Preserve

Clockwise from top left: Emma Descourouez, Hidden rabbit; Jeffrey Carl, I-74 bridges, Rock Island; Kristel Saxton, Woven in the light; Mary Palmberg, Math confusion; Jav Ducker, White moth and dark leaves, September 2021, Palisades; Tricia Brown, Late September gravel; Jeffrey Carl, Centennial Bridge, Rock Island

Clockwise from top left: Jonathan Hansen, Vulture portrait; Owen VanderLinden, The bee’s knees: a bumblebee on a Hyssop plant; John r. Moyers, The hummingbird and the bee, Manville Heights; Elly Hofmaier, Dan Padley and Jarrett Purdy; Julia Brough, Sophistication; Kelso Messerschmitt, I’m not a cat; Mary Palmberg, Sunset swish: tail in the late-day sun

This page, clockwise from top left: adria Carpenter, light installation; Monique Galpin, Grandma and Grandpa Green visit Baby Ellis for his first birthday; Johnny Brian, Day 206; annie Chapman Brewer, Autumnal equinox silhouette

This page, clockwise from top left: Sara McGuirk, A boy surveys the scene from atop a man’s shoulders; Jersey Bilyeu, A lone golfer; Cameron Johnson, BLM protest 2020

EDITORS’ PICKS: JANUARY 2022

EVENTS: JANUARY

JANUARY 2022

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Jan. 8, 15, 22, 29 at 2 p.m. To Hell & Back: A Poetic Journey Workshop,

Iowa City Poetry, Online, Saturdays,

$100 Former Iowan Becca Klaver joins Iowa City Poetry students virtually from her new home in Chicago to lead this epic quest of a writing seminar designed to have one foot in the craft of poetry and the other in the mystic space that drives our desire to tell our own mythology. Participants will explore writers like Rita Dove, Sandra Lim, Adrienne Rich and others (as well as, I’d hope, Klaver herself) as guides to diving into their own wrecks to salvage wisdom and beauty. Tuition assistance available.

Literary Luxuries

via Iowa City Poetry

Thursday, Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. Alicia Dill, CSPS Hall, Cedar Rapids, Free

Thursday, Jan. 20 at 7 p.m.

Antoine Wilson w/ Elizabeth McCracken, Prairie Lights, Online, Free

Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m.

Heather Gudenkauf, CSPS Hall, Free Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. Mark Prins w/Margot Livesey, Prairie Lights, Online, Free

Friday, Jan. 28 at 6:30 p.m. Ana Merino: Illustrating Spain in the US Book Launch, Prairie Lights, Online, Free

Tuesday, Feb. 1 at 7 p.m. Heather Gudenkauf w/ Hannah Mary McKinnon, Prairie Lights, Online, Free