Poetry

Articles:
2010 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
Live Discussion with Yasser Abdel-Latif, Feb. 26th, 2PM
UI Patient Voice Project Helps Tap into Creative Strength
Veterans invited to free UI Midwest Writers Workshop
Launch of eXchanges Winter Issue
2009 Whiting Writers’ Awards To Three Workshop Alumni
“Writing the World”: UI Graduate College Highlights the IWP
Poets & Writers Magazine Ranks Iowa #1
UI Press Marks 150th Anniversary of ‘Leaves of Grass’ with Facsimile Edition
Live Discussions on the Writing University website
New UI Press Anthology Traces Influence of Wallace Stevens
Book Reviews: Glück, Kidder, Westlake
Tomaž Šalamun Wins Prestigious ‘Struga Poetry Evenings’ Award
UI Libraries Host the ‘Iowa City Book Festival’ July 18
‘Elevenses’ Literary Hour Opens the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
91st Meridian’s New Issue Online
Workshop Alum Herrera Wins National Book Critics Circle Award
UI Press Releases Two Volumes of Poetry Scholarship
‘The Examined Life’ Conference Focuses on Creative Writing in Medical Education
UI Poetry Class Blog Reviews Readings in Iowa City
UNESCO Gala Event at the Englert Theater, April 7
2008 Iowa Poetry Prize Winner Zach Savich on BlogTalkRadio
“Conversations from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop” Premieres on Big Ten Network
Iowa Summer Writing Festival 2009 Registration Now Open
IWP Alum Anat Pick Featured on ‘Hard to Say’ Podcast
‘Pulitzer Town’ Timeline Highlights Iowa City’s Prize Recipients
W.D. Snodgrass, Poet and Pulitzer Prize winner, Dies at Age 83
UNESCO City of Literature Photo Gallery Now Online
Mark Doty Wins National Book Award
UNESCO designates Iowa City as the world’s third City of Literature
Middle East Reading and Lecture Tour Presents to Saudi Literati
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
IWP Alum Clifton Wins Irish Poetry Award
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Robert Hass in Tel Aviv
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
Alice Notley Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Review: Mimi Khalvati’s newest collection ‘The Meanest Flower’
UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
Readings and Reviews: ‘Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak’
Video Podcast: Jordan Stempleman
Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies at Age 84
IWP Alumni Oscar Hahn Wins “Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro” Prize
Charles Simic named 2007 Poet Laureate
UI’s Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become “Best in the Midwest”
From the VWU Archive: “Poets Against the War”
“Murmur,” by John Casteen
“Spoon and Tree,” by Sara London
UI Press Anthology ‘Primary Care’ Reviewed
Sandra Lim Poem in ‘Verse Daily’
From the VWU Archive: Eleni Sikelianos Reads from ‘The California Poem’
Listen: Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O’Brien at Prairie Lights Books
UI Press Releases Iowa Poetry Prize Winners
To Do: “Translating the Music of Poetry,” ‘Best New Poets,’ and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
Listen: Sam Witt at Prairie Lights Books
Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights
Listen: Dobby Gibson, Amanda Nadelberg, and Matthew Hart at Prairie Lights
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
Joshua Kryah Reads from ‘Glean’
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni in ‘Bookforum’
“The Yard’s Reason,” by Jan Weissmiller
‘Sentiment and the Sentimental’ in W.D. Snodgrass’s Poetry
New Issue of ‘91st Meridian’ Online
UI Press To Publish Detainee Poetry Collection
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumnae in ‘Boston Review’
To Do: ‘Returns’ and Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Poetry Class for Older Adults
Oscar Hahn
“In a Minute there is Time for a Hundred Indecisions”

Podcasts:
Katie Ford: “Ghost Forms: Using Traditional Form in Free Verse
Lon Otto: “Avoiding Literary Thin Ice”
Marilyn Abildskov - “Leap: Imagination in Nonfiction”
Marc Nieson, “Making Words Count”
David Hamilton: “A Baker’s (Half) Dozen Ways of Looking at a Literary Magazine”
Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”

Upcoming Events:
Iowa Review Reading, 11/13/06

Past Events:
G.C. Waldrep and Joshua Marie Wilkinson reading, 3/03/10
Sabrina Orah Mark and Malena Watrous reading, 3/02/10
Kevin Gonzalez reading, 2/25/10
Jerry Gabriel and Karen Leona Anderson reading, 2/18/10
D.A. Powell and David Trinidad reading, 2/11/10
Tim Fay and the Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/29/10
Ben Lerner reading, 12/09/09
Rob Schlegel reading, 12/02/09
Eileen Myles reading, 11/17/09
Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Student reading, 11/13/09
Brenda Hillman reading, 11/12/09
Dora Malech reading, 11/05/09
Chris Martin and Ted Mathys reading, 10/28/09
Who’s for Dinner Anthology, 10/23/09
Mark Strand reading, 10/22/09
Tod Marshall reading, 10/20/09
Chris Forhan and Alesandra Lynch reading, 10/15/09
Christopher Merrill and Marvin Bell reading, 10/14/09
Live Discussion: Eavan Boland, 10/14/09
Eavan Boland reading, 10/12/09
IWP/Writers’ Workshop reading, 10/11/09
Brian Teare reading, 10/05/09
Mary Jo Bang reading, 10/01/09
Small Octopus of Death Anthology, 9/25/09
Jared Stanley and Jessica Savitz reading, 9/24/09
Amber Tamblyn reading, 9/22/09
Kiki Petrosino & Jordan Stempleman reading, 9/17/09
John Koethe reading, 9/10/09
An Iowa Review Reading & Reception Celebrating David Hamilton, 9/03/09
Andrea Cohen reading, 7/23/09
Mary Swander reading, 7/21/09
Iowa City Book Festival, 7/18/09
Todd Boss reading, 7/16/09
Albert Goldbarth reading, 7/10/09
John Graber and Bruce Bond reading, 6/25/09
Robert Wachal reading, 6/23/09
Michael Dennis Browne reading, 6/22/09
Gregg Rappleye reading, 6/18/09
James Galvin reading, 5/07/09
Undergraduate Creative Writing Track reading, 5/06/09
Mark McMorris Q & A, 4/30/09
Mark McMorris reading, 4/29/09
A Norton Anthology of New Poetry reading, 4/27/09
Mark Nowak reading, 4/24/09
Earthwords reading, 4/22/09
Linda Hess reading, 4/17/09
Adam Zagajewski Q & A, 4/17/09
Adam Zagajewski reading, 4/16/09
Frontier Logic Poetry Reading, 4/10/09
Oni Buchanan & Donna Stonecipher reading, 4/06/09
Edmund White, Charlie D’Ambrosio, Andrew Milward reading, 4/04/09
Forklift: Ohio/Anthology reading, 4/03/09
Dobby Gibson reading, 4/01/09
Anthology Reading: Anthology Because of Dogs, 3/27/09
John Taggart Q & A, 3/27/09
John Taggart reading, 3/26/09
Zach Savich reading, 3/25/09
Kevin Holden reading, 3/24/09
Anthology Reading Series, 3/07/09
Eleni Sikelianos reading, 2/16/09
D. A. Powell & Jane Mead reading, 2/09/09
Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/30/09
James Shea reading, 1/22/09
Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl reading, 12/08/08
Festival of Expression: an open performance event, 12/04/08
Robyn Schiff reading, 11/18/08
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/07/08
Katy Lederer & Kazim Ali reading, 11/06/08
Rick Campbell reading, 10/27/08
International Writing Program Friday Reading: Open World, 10/24/08
Mary Jo Bang reading, 10/21/08
Robin Schiff reading, 10/17/08
Forrest Gander reading, 10/09/08
Richard Kenney reading, 10/07/08
David Weiss & Jim Crenner reading, 10/06/08
Cate Marvin & Rick Barot reading, 9/23/08
A Tribute to David Foster Wallace, 9/16/08
Franklin Reeve reading, 9/12/08
David Hamilton, Iowa Review Reading, 9/02/08
Katie Ford reading, 7/15/08
Vic Camillo reading, 6/25/08
Erika Wurth, Sheryl Luna, and Gabriel Gomez reading, 6/23/08
Juliette Patterson and G.E. Patterson reading -CANCELLED, 6/16/08
Whenever We Feel Like It poetry reading, 5/03/08
Dean Young reading, 5/02/08
Paul Muldoon reading, 5/01/08
Paul Muldoon Q & A, 5/01/08
Martha Grimes reading and talk, 4/30/08
Aeronwy Thomas & Peter Thabit-Jones reading, 4/28/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure lecture, 4/25/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure reading, 4/24/08
Marvin Bell reading and discussion, 4/24/08
Edward Hirsch reading, 4/23/08
Best New Poets 2007 reading, 4/22/08
Undergraduate Writing Contest reading, 4/16/08
Fall and Spring Semesters: Writers Knit, second Sunday of every month, 4/13/08
Louise Glück reading, 4/09/08
Louise Gluck After-Reading Party, 4/09/08
Rachel Zucker reading, 4/07/08
Peter Waldor reading, 4/03/08