Agnes Lam, using few words as is her preference, writes poetry because it is something she likes to do. Hu Xudong's talk, "From the Margin of a Painting to Plural Inner Selves," describes the myriad transitions he has gone through growing from a...
As part of the Shambaugh House reading series, Cho Yong Mee (South Korea) and Hon Lai Chu (Hong Kong) read their work. This reading takes place at the University of Iowa Main Library.
CHO Yong Mee (poet, essayist; South Korea) is the recipient of...
As part of the Shambaugh House reading series, Cho Yong Mee (South Korea) and Hon Lai Chu (Hong Kong) read their work. This reading takes place at the University of Iowa Main Library.
Cho Yong Mee (poet, essayist; South Korea) is the recipient of...
Dung Kai Cheung titled his talk "Towards Writing as a Folk Art" and tries to redefine the strata where different types of writers sit, from the established masters seen traditionally at the "top" to the learners and readers seen traditionally at...
Hong Kong essayist, fiction writer and editor Xu Xi, the Barbara Bedell Visiting Writer in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, reads from her essay collection "Evanescent Isles."
In "Evanescent Isles," Xu Xi writes of Hong Kong's...
This reading was organized in conjunction with the national grassroots movement Poets Against the war (www.poetsagainstthewar.org) and features poets associated with the Writers' Workshop and the International Writing Program. Marvin Bell...
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...