Elena Bossi's discussion of "Writing as Philosophy and Craft" focuses on pseudonymity in fiction, titling her talk "The Names of the Other." Chris Chryssopoulos recalls philosophies of Jorge Luis Borges, Immanuel Kant, Ludwig Wittgenstein, but...
"Shimada Masahiko traces all experiences back to the brain, including hysteria, neurosis, and relief that comes through receiving the word as medicine. Michal Hvorecký discusses the topic through two Czech writers, Dominik Tatarka and Egon Bondy,...
Millie Mae Wicklund attended the University of Iowa and has published eleven books of poetry. 'Freak!' first appeared in the Winter 2005/06 issue of The Iowa Review.
Award-winning American novelist, Alice McDermott, author of Charming Billy, and Child of My Heart, reads from her new novel, After This, once again proving her mastery of Irish-American suburban life. “Word by word, metaphor by metaphor, Alice...
Beyond describing the necessary qualities in translating poetry--"honesty, musical ears, investigating for the right things behind things"--Nadia Abduljabbar's talk goes into the difficulties of translating cultural experiences and expectations...
International authors and filmmakers meet to discuss their perspectives on translating writing into film and television. Lou Ye experiments with how changing the delivery of message changes the thoughts that get delivered. Rafael Courtoisie's talk...
Maryam Ala Amjadi is a poet and translator from Iran. For her, the act of translating is in itself a form of self-exile, because the writer is forced to distance themselves from their mother tongue and in so doing, they become spectators both of...
Leopoldo Brizuela says the way his imagination works is "not on reality itself, but on representation of reality: moreover, not on the words or images that represent reality, but on their silences, on their voids." Jeong Han-Yong applies the topic...
Festival included: an address by Gibson A. Danes; "From galleries, museums and private homes ... this exhibition is composed of irreplaceable art objects of great aesthetic quality and intrinsic value. It affords indisputable evidence of great...
Teresa Paschke is an Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in Ames where she teaches in the Fibers program. Her work has been featured in many national and international exhibitions. She recently returned from a residency at the Women's...
Laura Young is a landscape and still life painter and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa where she is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Iowa. She has won numerous fellowships and awards and has...
Douglas Eckheart attended Concordia College in Moorhead and received a B.A. degree in 1965. He earned an M.F.A. in 1967 from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Douglas is currently a Professor of Art at Luther College in Decorah.
A Mechanicsville native and graduate of Iowa City High and Iowa State University, Zachary Michael Jack worked as an Iowa public librarian and newspaper section editor before becoming a college professor. The author or editor of more than a half...
Susan Coleman was born and raised in rural eastern Missouri. She received her BFA in drawing from Webster College, in St. Louis, and her MA (drawing) and MFA (painting) from the University of Iowa. Susan has shown in venues throughout the Midwest...
Alisa Holen earned a B.A. in studio art from Augsburg College in 1990, opening a ceramics studio in 1992. Holen attended the University of Iowa for graduate school. She is currently a visiting assistant professor in ceramics at the University of...