Thursday, June 30, 2011

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Poets & Writers Magazine features the Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Anniversary this month in the article, Writers’ Workshop at Seventy-Five: "This year the oldest graduate creative writing program in the United States turns seventy-five. In June the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, alma mater of writers ranging from John Irving to Flannery O’Connor, Jorie Graham to Michael Cunningham, celebrated the anniversary with a reunion of faculty and alumni that brought together some of the most recognized names in literature today. T. C. Boyle, Robert Hass, Margot Livesey, Francine Prose, Marilynne Robinson, and Jane Smiley, among other Pulitzer Prize winners, poets laureate, and Fulbright scholars, converged on campus in Iowa City..." read more