This is the figure of a Chokwe chief wearing the elaborate crown called cipenya mutwe , and holding the small figures of male and female ancestors, mahamba in his hands. The figure stands with knees slightly flexed, upper body inclined forward....
To Anna Rogozhnikova, female literature can be singled out, separated and understood as a continuation of the women writers themselves. Considering male domination a universal issue, Edi Shukriu divides her talk into four parts: gender experience...
This book was compiled by Helen R. Rohm of Woodstock, Illinois, circa 1930-1940. The recipes are handwritten with a few pasted in from newspapers. There are 182 pages of which 70 are written. Recipes include: Sour Cream Cookies, Drop Cakes,...
Tim Trenkle is a resident of Dubuque, Iowa, where he writes a column for the Telegraph Herald. 'My people have all been farmers and meatpackers,' he says. 'I write human interest pieces about Iowa and the values of our world, seen from the banks of...
Kristina Dallmann grew up on a farm near Grimes, Iowa, and her parents still live there. She now lives in Iowa City and works as a chemist at the UI Hygienic Lab. She has had poems published in the Iowa City Poetry in Public project and in Lyrical...
Tim Tysver writes, 'I was born in Sheldon, Iowa, and moved to Storm Lake at a young age. I graduated from Storm Lake High School in 1983 and attended college in Sioux City for two years. I spent five years in the United States Army as a Military...
Rob Vogt is a Chicago-area native and an Iowa Summer Writing Festival attendee. He has studied short story writing under Elizabeth Wetmore and Bret Anthony Johnston, graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop.