Olabayo Olaniyi, from a royal family and a long line of artists and performers from Oshogbo, Nigeria, has been apprenticed since his youth as an artist, drummer, and dancer in Nigeria. He received his BFA from the College of Santa Fe and his MFA at...
John E. Archer is an Iowa native, born in Centerville, who lives in West Liberty, Iowa. He has authored technical articles while working for several industrial firms. His latest project is a first-person account of growing up in Muscatine and...
Huston Diehl is a professor of English at the University of Iowa. An award-winning teacher, she has published a number of essays on pedagogy as well as many articles on Renaissance literature. Dream Not of Other Worlds was published this month by...
Lois Muehl, an associate professor of Rhetoric retired from the University of Iowa, is a long-time freelance writer. Varied experiences raising four children, teaching in this country and abroad have contributed to her articles, prize-winning...
Olabayo Olaniyi, from a royal family and a long line of artists and performers from Oshogbo, Nigeria, has been apprenticed since his youth as an artist, drummer, and dancer in Nigeria. He received his BFA from the College of Santa Fe and his MFA at...
Olabayo Olaniyi, from a royal family and a long line of artists and performers from Oshogbo, Nigeria, has been apprenticed since his youth as an artist, drummer, and dancer in Nigeria. He received his BFA from the College of Santa Fe and his MFA at...
Ken Chawkin has taught the Transcendental Meditation Program and is currently a publicist for Maharishi University of Management. He has written articles on TM and Consciousness-Based Education, and assisted other writers, editors, and film and...
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
One of 18 scrapbooks on Wood's career, containing letters, postcards, photographs, clippings, and miscellany; compiled by Nan Wood Graham, sister of Grant Wood.
The Holo live on both sides of the Kwango River south of theYaka and the Suku on the border between Zaire and Angola. TheGuillaume waterfall marks the northern limit of Holo country. They form a cultural transition between the Yaka and the Suku to...
Dr. P. Bayapa Reddy, visiting Fulbright Scholar to The University of Iowa, is interviewed by Peter Nazareth. The interview begins with Bayapa Reddy talking about reading one of Nazareth's articles and the ideas that it raised for him. Bayapa Reddy...
Author, filmmaker, journalist, and activist Antonino D'Ambrosio reads from his book Let Fury Have the Hour: the Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer. The book collects articles, interviews, essays and reviews that chronicle Strummer's life as a...
The focus of this program is pet psychic communication. Freelance author Eve Adamson teamed up with pet psychic Debbie McGillivary to write The Complete Idiot's Guide to Pet Psychic Communication. According to the book, everyone possesses the...
Two visitors in this year's International Writing Program read from their respective works. Alexis Stamatis of Greece is the author of novels, collections of poems, numerous translations and magazine articles, opera librettos, and plays. His most...
Five 1995 IWP authors briefly discuss a few books they have written. First, Larry Thomas a playwright from Fiji discusses a collection of three plays written between 1989 and 1991; "Outcasts" "Yours Dearly and Men, Women" and "Insanity." He then...
Ted Kooser reads various poems in honor of the release of his collection of poems entitled Delights and Shadows.
Kooser explains his tradition of annually sending postcards inscribed with a Valentine’s Day poem to wives of friends, and how he...
Igal Sarna discusses his book Petrov Disappears Into the Desert, a work of nonfiction based on a true story about a Russian immigrant's disappearance and murder in the Israeli desert. Nazareth observes that the book reads like a novel; Sarna, a...
Writer and editor Antonino D'Ambrosio reads from his new collection of essays, "Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Politics of Joe Strummer.
D'Ambrosio's essays about the Clash depict the days when punk was much more than just a kind of music. "Let...