To the Editor -- Point of View -- Campus News -- Introducing: The New Arena—Recreation Project -- The Great Depression:
Why It Can't Happen Again -- '69 Alumni Return for Homecoming '79 -- Time After Time Premiere: Super Show at the UI -- Dr....
Iowa's Own: With a smile on her face and her sleeves rolled up. President Mary Sue Coleman is directing the UI toward its goal of becoming one of the ten best public research universities in the nation. -- Striking Accord: Even a nursery rhyme can...
Sounding the Alarm on Sleep From insomnia to sleep apnea to a slew of other diagnoses, Dr. Eric Dyken is spreading the word about sleep disorders medicine. -- Keeping the Lid On: Campuses nationwide experienced the unrest of the tumultuous sixties...
2009 Writer's Workshop graduate Jenny Zhang reads "The Empty, the Empty, the Empty." Chinese poet and playwright Han Bo reads part of a poem in Chinese and part of a play. Alice Pung (fiction writer, playwright, nonfiction writer; Australia) reads...
Poet and playwright Honor Moore reads from the memoir "The Bishop's Daughter."
Paul Moore's vocation as an Episcopal priest took him -- with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children -- from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban...
Clark Blaise speaks with four 1990 International Writing Program participants. First, Festus Iyayi discusses studying economics in the Soviet Union, working as a journalist in Nigeria and work at the University of Berlin. In 1977 Iyayi received a...
Vivienne Plumb discusses being a contemporary playwright in New Zealand, with a particular focus on the Maori renaissance in New Zealand theater. Maxim Kurochkin talks about the two "gears" required to be a playwright, and how forgetting to switch...
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...
Do you need to have a background in theatre to write plays? What’s the difference between a playwright and a screenwriter? How is it possible to develop characters and tell a story without passages of description and exposition? Is it up to the...
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...