Video: Marvin Bell >> "Writers in a Café": a UNESCO poem
In this video, Poet Laureate Marvin Bell discusses the history of writing in Iowa City and reads his poem “Writers in a Café”. | June 21, 2008
"I suspect Iowa City has more writers per capita than anywhere else. Someone asked me on the phone one time during an interview, "Are you the best poet in Iowa City?," and I said, "I'm the best poet on the 1400 block of E. College Street, unless someone has moved in recently that I don't know about..." | May 13, 2008
This eight-minute tape gives a comprehensive look at the International Writing Program in the past and tells the story of the restructuring of the program in 1999. | January 01, 1999
This reading in Iowa City, IA was organized in conjunction with the national grassroots movement, Poets Against the War, and features poets associated with the Writers’ Workshop and the International Writing Program. Marvin Bell introduces the reading, and then Kiki Petrosino speaks briefly about the spirit and purpose of the reading. Poets Marvin Bell, James Galvin, David Hamilton, John Mateer, James McKean, Dave Morice, Mani Rao, Mary Ruefle, Mary Swander, Jan Weissmiller, and Dean Young each read a selection of poems. | November 09, 2005
David Hamilton, editor of the Iowa Review, begins the reading with a moment of silence for the hostage tragedy in Beslan, Russia. He notes that every issue of the Iowa Review features a “Human Rights Index.” Hamilton introduces author Yiyun Li. Yiyun Li reads her short story, “The Ground Floor,” and then she and David Hamilton take questions from the audience. | September 03, 2004