The 1999 International Writing Program participants are introduced to Iowa by visiting an Iowan farm and The University of Iowa Main Library. They introduce themselves to one another as well as to the people of Iowa. Segments include their arrival...
Contents: Acceptance of commission position ALA to John Upston, Jun. 19, 1974; Acceptance of commission position to Miller Upton, Jun. 19, 1974; Acceptance of invitation to address Cerro Gordo County Council, Aug. 28, 1972; Acceptance of UNICEF...
Dan Lechay grew up in Iowa City and earned a Ph.D. in English at the University of Iowa. He lived in New York for many years, and for a decade directed investigations into health and other issues for the New York City Council President. He has...
Frank Conroy serves as master of ceremonies, The University of Iowa President David Skorton gives welcoming remarks, and the reading is introduced by poet James Galvin, a faculty member of the workshop. Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney...
Nick Twemlow and Joel Craig read from their new collections of poems. Nick Twemlow reads from Palm Trees, his first full length collection. Robert Fernandez describes Twemlow as a poet “at once debased and ecstatic, resigned and ambitious, victim...
Julia Pandl reads from Memoir of the Sunday Brunch. For Julia Pandl, the rite of passage into young-adulthood included mandatory service at her family's restaurant, where she watched as her father—the chef—ruled with the strictness of a drill...