Poetry

Articles:
The Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine Conference
Novel conceived at the UI begins week of Writing University streams
The Iowa Review Awards Now Accepting Submissions
Poetry opened doors wide for Eduardo Corral
Iowa and Invisible Man: Making Blackness Visible
UI to Offer MFA in Spanish Creative Writing
UI writing alumni McCrae and Corral win prestigious Whiting Awards
New ‘On the Fly’ Videos
The Iowa Review’s Fall Issue
UI poets read at benefit event for former faculty member Dean Young
Workshop alumnus Levine named U.S. Poet Laureate
Reykjavik becomes the fifth UNESCO City of Literature
Bookworms Unite at Iowa City Book Festival
Poets and Writers Magazine: Iowa Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five
2011 Iowa City Book Festival
Thomas Fox Averill, a Writers’ Workshop alumnus, opens week of UI live streams
Iowa City Book Festival in Oprah’s ‘O’ Magazine
BOOKMARKS Book Art of Johnson County Debuts
The Iowa Writers’ Workshop’s 75th Anniversary
New Archived Readings: Levine, Glazer, Orner and more
IC Literary Walk Expanding to the North Side
Online Journals by UI Alumni: Transom and Wag’s Revue
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Featured on PBS “News Hour”
Mission Creek Festival Literary Lineup
2011 Iowa Summer Writing Festival Now Accepting Registrations
Remembering Steve Orlen
New Video Series ‘On the Fly’
Hot Tin Roof Writing Contest
New iPhone app: Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature
Pulitzer Prize Winner James Tate Reads Thursday, Oct. 21
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Graduate Dora Malech Receives Ruth Lilly Fellowship
IWP Starts Year with Three Free Events
Former Writers’ Workshop Faculty Member Pays His Way with Poetry
Director Amy Margolis’s Reflections on the Iowa Summer Writing Festival
10,000 Pages of Poetry in 100 Days
Writers’ Workshop Graduate Catherine Knepper Helps Authors Get Published
The Daily Palette: A Website for Iowa Artists and Writers
“Elevenses” Open the Iowa Summer Writing Festival to the Public
Live Discussion with Edan Lepucki and Kristin Hatch
Iowa City Book Festival, July 16-18
“The Pleasure of Ideas”: an interview with James Galvin
New In-Depth Biography Project Underway
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

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:
Cole Swensen and Cal Bedient reading, 12/01/11
Rick Ryan reading, 10/17/11
Spanish Literary Recital reading, 10/14/11
Nathan Hoks and Wayne Miller reading, 10/13/11
Paul Engle Award Ceremony, 10/12/11
Lily Brown and Travis Nichols reading, 10/10/11
Shira Dentz and Julie Carr, 10/05/11
Ilya Kaminsky reading, 9/21/11
Kiwao Nomura reading, 9/16/11
Robert Fernandez and Chris Martin reading, 9/08/11
Dean Young Benefit reading, 8/31/11
Iowa Review reading, 8/25/11
Madeline McDonnell and Andrea Rexilius reading, 7/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Mary Allen—The Slow-Developing Picture: Writing a Family Memoir, 7/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Sam Samuels—Writing The Query Letter, 7/27/11
Anita Skeen reading, 7/26/11
The Eleventh Hour: Robert Siegel—Haiku for Prose Writers: Exploring the Power of the Image, 7/26/11
The Eleventh Hour: Hugh Ferrer—A Word from Dr. Frankenstein: Giving Life to Fiction, 7/25/11
The Eleventh Hour: Susan Taylor Chehak—This is Your Brain on Books, 7/21/11
The Eleventh Hour: Fritz McDonald—Fact vs. Fiction: Why Memoir Needs Both, 7/20/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kate Aspengren—27 Things You’ve Always Wanted To Know About Playwriti, 7/19/11
The Eleventh Hour: Eula Biss—Research and the Personal Essay, 7/18/11
The Eleventh Hour: Kathleen Rooney—The Evilly Compounded, Vital I: Point of View in Creative N, 7/14/11
Jerry Harp reading, 7/13/11
The Eleventh Hour: Megan Gogerty—A Guy Walks Into A Bar, and other Perception Shifts, 7/13/11
The Eleventh Hour: Venise Berry—Clarity and Depth, 7/12/11
The Eleventh Hour: John Dalton—What do Readers of Fiction Most Value in a Novel?, 7/11/11
The Eleventh Hour: James Allen Hall—Don’t Stand So Close to Me: Strategic Uses of Point , 6/30/11
The Eleventh Hour: Jim Heynen & Panel—The Place of Conviction and Belief in our Writing, 6/29/11
The Eleventh Hour: Karen Bender—The 10 Commandments for Becoming a Writer, 6/28/11
The Eleventh Hour: Tim Bascom—Party Line: Finding a More Purposeful Feedback for Our Writing, 6/27/11
Christine Hemp reading, 6/22/11
The Eleventh Hour: Elizabeth Robinson—How to Submit to Literary Periodicals, 6/21/11
The Writer as Public Figure, 6/11/11
Keynote Address: “The Workshop as Phenomenon,” Marilynne Robinson, 6/09/11
Community Stories Writing Workshop at The Iowa City Shelter House reading, 5/26/11
Older Americans Month reading, 5/06/11
Geoffrey G. O’Brien and Cyrus Console, 5/05/11
PEN World Voices Festival, 5/02/11
Earthwords reading, 4/30/11
Kristin Kelly reading, 4/29/11
“City of Lit” Iowa Authors Event, 4/27/11
Robert Pinsky reading, 4/23/11
Aliki Barnstone reading, 4/23/11
Mark Levine and Emily Wilson reading, 4/21/11
Michele Glazer reading, 4/14/11
Peter Richards and Daniel Tiffany reading, 4/12/11
Julie Hanson reading, 3/31/11
Danny Khalastchi & Zach Savich reading, 3/22/11
Adam Fell reading, 3/04/11
Paul’s Book Club, 2/25/11
Elizabeth Bishop poetry event, 2/08/11
Aaron Belz reading, 1/28/11
Ish Klein and Josh Edwards reading, 1/24/11
The Wapsipinicon Almanac reading, 1/21/11
Dora Malech and Shane McCrae, poetry reading, 1/20/11
Cole Swensen reading, 12/01/10
David Lau and Shane Book reading, 11/12/10
Charles Bernstein reading, 11/11/10
Dr. Bruce Hopkins reading, 11/09/10
James Tate reading, 10/21/10
Julia Story reading, 10/19/10
Elyse Fenton reading, 10/05/10
Sara London reading, 9/29/10
James Tate reading, 9/23/10
Joanna Klink and Timothy Donnelly reading, 9/17/10
David Huddle reading, 9/14/10
Seamus Cashman and Joan McBrenn reading, 9/09/10
Keetje Kuipers and Karla Kelsey reading, 9/09/10
Milosz Biedrzycki and H. M. Naqvi reading, 9/07/10
Iowa Review Reading, 8/30/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/30/10
Elevenses: Dora Malech, 7/29/10
Elevenses: BK Loren & Sarah Saffian, 7/28/10
Elevenses: Kelly Dwyer, 7/26/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/23/10
Elevenses: Elizabeth Robinson, 7/22/10
Steven and Reefka Schneider reading, 7/21/10
Elevenses: BK Loren, 7/21/10
Elevenses: Mary Swander, 7/20/10
Elevenses: Doug Goetsch, 7/19/10
Tarek Eltayeb and Dunya Mikhail Readings, 7/18/10
James Galvin Reading, 7/17/10
Ray Young Bear Reading, 7/17/10
Iowa City Book Festival Author Dinner, 7/16/10
Author Dinner, 7/16/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/16/10
Marc Rahe reading, 7/15/10
Elevenses: Linda Bendorf, 7/13/10
Elevenses: Leslie Schwartz, 7/12/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 7/02/10
Andrea Cohen reading, 7/01/10
Elevenses: Jericho Brown, 7/01/10
Elevenses: Nancy Barry, 6/30/10
Elevenses: Lon Otto, 6/29/10
Elevenses: Faculty Reading, 6/25/10
Wayne Johnson and Karen Subach reading, 6/24/10
Pamela Gemin and Michael Walsh reading, 6/22/10
Elevenses: Michael Morse & Panel, 6/22/10
Elevenses: Marc Nielson, 6/21/10