Jeremy Mercer reads from and discusses his memoir, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.. He goes on to detail the events that led up to his arrival at the Shakespeare & Co. bookstore in Paris, France. Mercer had previously...
In an event sponsored by The University of Iowa's Non-Fiction Program, Honor Moore reads from her work. Honor Moore is the author of three collections of poems: Red Shoes, Darling, and Memoir; two works of nonfiction, The White Blackbird and The...
Anthony Swofford reads from his new memoir, Hotels, Hospitals and Jails. A New York Times bestseller, Swofford’s first book, Jarhead, recounted his service as a marine sniper in the Gulf War. Following the success of Jarhead, Swofford assumed he...
The Three Poisons is a simple and elegant Tibetan Buddhist teaching that identifies three foundational emotions that underlie all others—passion, aggression, and ignorance—much the way the three primary colors combine to make all others. For...
Iman Humaydan Younes and Marcus Jackson read from their work.
Iman Humaydan is the founder of ARRAWI, a nonprofit center for marginalized youth in Lebanon. Her short stories, essays, and journalism have appeared in German, Swiss, French, and...
Atina Diffley of Organic Farm Works reads from the memoir Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works. Diffley is the editor and designer of Roger Blobaum’s Organic History Website, and a contributing author of and lead trainer forWholesale...
Poets Sally Keith and Dan Beachy-Quick read from their work. Sally Keith's most recent book is Fact of the Matter. Moving from the mundane to the profound, first through observation of fact and matter, then shifting perspective, engaging a deeper...
Tourism is a birthright. Migration is something else altogether. Those who migrate need something from the country they enter: food, space, safety. They carry along with them: bodies, desires, values. At times, the flow between migrants and the new...
Peter Nazareth introduces each member of the panel discussion. Felipe Valenzuela is the first speaker and his presentation is titled 'Magical Realism: Fantasy in Reality and Reality in Fantasy.' Roberto Amado is the next presenter and his...
IWP Director Christopher Merrill introduces a joint reading featuring Kazakhstani author Anna Rogozhnikova and Edi Shukriu from Kosovo. Rogoshnikova reads a selection of short fiction pieces. Shukriu reads from the first draft of her new novel,...
Ken McCullough, Iowa Writer's Workshop Poetry graduate of the 1960s returned to read from his lates collection Obsidian Point. His influences include Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, and Native Indian and Cambodian cultures.
Author of Talk Before Sleep and Range of Motion, novelist Elizabeth Berg reads from her latest book that delves into the nuances of human relationships, Say When. The story is about the dissolve of a marriage, told in third person from mostly the...
Poets Rebecca Wolff and Catherine Wagner read from their respective new collections. Wolff reads from Figment, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Wagner reads from Macular Hole.
Works Read: Rebecca Wolff reads the following poems from...