Iowa City Chef Kurt Michael Friese will read from his new book, Chasing Chiles: Hot Spots Along the Pepper Trail. Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the...
Christopher Merrill introduces each of the speakers. Michal Horvecký from Slovakia begins by reading from his short story 'Suede.' Kurt Folch from Chile then reads some of his poems, including 'Landscape,' 'Where the Ripe Wheat,' 'Love Letter,'...
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Kurt Friese is the founder of the first Iowa Slow Food convivium, part of Slow Food USA, a growing movement that promotes eating local foods that are sustainably farmed and lovingly prepared.
Friese speaks with host Julie Englander about his...
Hualing Nieh Engle leads IWP participants and members of the 1982 Chinese Writers' Delegation in a panel discussion about Chinese literature and society. All of the participants describe what it was like to come of age as a writer in China. Chen...
"The third annual exhibition of contemporary art (The Iowa Summer Show) is presented by the School of Fine Arts at the State University of Iowa as one of the major events of the Ninth Annual Fine Arts Festival. The exhibition this year presents...
Kurt Folch, Chilean poet and translator, participated in the 2004 International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. His poetry has received many awards, such as the Pablo Neruda Creative Writing Fellowship (1997) and the Jose Donoso Creative...