Edgar Calabia Samar of the Philippines begins the panel with a discussion of the power of lists on readership. He states that the danger that lists of canonical books is the fact they ignore potentially significant works and may further limit...
Lev Usyskin conceives the "Russian scene" in terms of colonization and purposes a re-colonization to fight the population loss in Russian territories. Michail Butov considers Russian politics, culture, talent, and collective identity when...
Gentian Çoçoli has published three collections of poetry in his native Albania, most recently Human Soil (2006). He is also the founder of the literary journal Aleph Review. Çoçoli participated in the University of Iowa's International Writing...
Nadia Abduljabbar stresses the need to address the similarities between Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, considering "different religions as different windows toward Heaven." Nihad Sirees addresses the concept of Jihad in Islam, and the...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
Letters detailing army life in 1863 for Civil War soldier William Titus Rigby of the 24th Iowa Infantry Regiment, Company B, including the Vicksburg campaign.
Marian Mathews Clark earned an MFA from the Iowa's Writers' Workshop. She has published fiction in Story and The Sun and nonfiction in Dutiful Daughters and Persimmon Tree. She has taught in the Summer Writing Festival, and for twenty years has...
Isabelle Levi was born in Egypt and immigrated to the United States in 1966. She published her first poetry book "melting in Your Oneness" in October 2010, based on experiences of the transcendent, silence, light and bliss, the relationship of...