Simone Inguanez chooses to stand in her poetry, a place that can neither be created nor destroyed. James Na divides his presentation into three topics: the hibernation of Phillippine-Chinese literature, the Phillippine-Chinese literature under the...
Fashionable Physician: A dynamo with a fancy for fine shoes and perfume, transplant surgeon Maureen Martin is a perfectionist, and she is determined to make the nation's organ transplant system work for as many patients as she can. -- Saving for...
Indonesian author and 1979 International Writing Program resident, Arswendo Atmowiloto, discusses comics, censorship and short stories. Atmowiloto is the first Indonesian author to produce fiction written on walls. As such, he talks writing...
Truce or Consequences: The people in Northern Ireland have decided they want peace, and a remarkable Iowa graduate is helping them achieve it. Mo Mowlam, who went face-to-face with killers from both sides of the conflict to broker the Good Friday...
Milosz Biedrzycki's talk, titled "Jan Kochanowski: Across the Languages, Beyond the Boundaries," discusses the 16th-century poet, who wrote in Polish and Latin, and his centuries-long impact on Polish poetry. Andrea Hirata's talk, "Translating...
Educating the Top Tenth -- Four Student Reflections On the Honors Program -- Christmas At Handicapped School -- Wider Worlds For Women" -- . . in a consistent pattern of excellence." -- Profile of a Rhodes Scholar -- Versatile Virtuoso -- What...
Rafiq talks about his various motivations for poetic creation. Koiri talks about the creative process he experienced in his development as a young Indonesian writer
Clark Blaise hosts a panel discussion with four poets and begins with Taufiq Ismail, an anthologist from Indonesia who is doing an anthology of American poetry for the Indonesian audience. Gémino H. Abad, an anthologist from the Philippines is the...
Mimi Khalvati, born in Iran and attended boarding school in England in her childhood, says the way she is seen on the outside affects the poetry she writes from the inside. Laksmi Pamuntjak, who is Indonesian who writes in English as well as her...
Dorothy Paul, host of the reading, introduces Clark Blaise, director of the IWP, who then introduces the speaker Marion Bloem. Bloem discusses being an Indonesian in Dutch society and having to deal with racism and being viewed as an outsider. ...
Two poets from the International Writing Program in 1991 present their individual experiences putting together translated poetry anthologies for their countries. They speak of the process they have gone through and present their views. Gémino...