The Writing University is asking creative writing programs on campus to come up with simple, easy lists of reading suggestions from their programs, in order to showcase the wealth of incredible writers we have here - alumni, current students, faculty and more!
Today's list is from the 91st Meridian journal at the International Writing Program. It includes sampling of the fantastic work by friends and alumni of the IWP in their latest issue. Here are just a few examples:
- Minae Mizumura (Tokyo, Japan)
...what if a government is hindered from governing?
- Chandrahas Choudhury (New Delhi, India)
…to clear away the leaves of time and habit…
- Nick Yu (Shanghai, China)
...All things in the world are in balance...
- Ksenia Dragunskaya (rural Russia)
If there are no riots, if we are silent and timid, the State will only become more cruel and brazen...
- Alice Yousef (Jerusalem, Israel)
...what was once invisible is now seen...
- Haifa Abu-Al Nadi (Amman, Jordan)
A people and a government share their loaf of bread...
- Nikola Madzirov (Strumica, North Macedonia)
...confinement is everything except a belonging ...
- Soheil Najm (Baghdad, Iraq)
...social justice is central for human beings...
- Antoinette Tidjani Alou (Paris/Niamey)
...consented intimacy confers the clear insight of small children and lovers...
- Sabata-Mpho Mokae (Kimberley, South Africa)
...a glimpse of how the past was, how the future can be...
- Khaled Khalifa (Latakia, Syria)
There remains only one solution: to ignore the virus.
Read the entire issue here:
Spring 2020 Vol 10 No 3 "The Situation" - II
We hope you enjoy! And check back for more lists from other writing programs at the University of Iowa.