Military camps; Military life; Marriage; Patriotism; Soldiers; Spouses; Railroad trains; Railroad bridges; Sabotage; Pregnancy
John "Jay" Treat and his wife "Lib" were stationed in Hannibal, Mo. where Jay was serving in the Union Army. Their letter is addressed to their cousins Tilly, Bell, and Mag Wise.
Deborah Noyes reads from her novel, Angel and Apostle, intended as a “revisionist’s look” at Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. Noyes explains her decision to write a sequel to The Scarlet Letter, claiming that “writers are thieves at...
Kyoko Yoshida tackles the topic of fantasy and reality through identifying "disorientalism" in four parts, taking his audience on a journey that beings with a story by Edgar Allen Poe and ends with Coleridge pursuing the real, rebuilt, Xanadu....
South African author Maxine Case discusses Miriam Tlali and Bessie Head, two former South African women IWP participants. She then gives a brief history of apartheid and closes by stating that she is grateful for the efforts of authors such Tlali...
Doris Kareva discusses her belief that literary translation is akin to alchemy, being about creation and recreation, and that transformation is only possible through passionate people taking on texts that are absolutely necessary for them to...
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...
Nature writer Ted Kerasote reads from his new book, Merle’s Door: Lessons from a Freethinking Dog. Kerasote has written a book full of intelligence, humor, and imagination. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that Merle’s Door could be the...