Two Salt Modern Poets, Catherine Theis and Rebecca Lehmann read from their work. Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Catherine Theis reads from her debut book of poetry, The Fraud of Good Sleep. The Fraud of Good Sleep is a book of “serious...
Iowa City author Karen Fox reads from Living Peace. Fox encourages readers to embrace five principles: forgiveness, confidence, compassion, gratitude, and integrity. She explores what each principle requires of us and shares her personal journey...
Andrew Milward reads from his prize-winning collection of short stories, The Agriculture Hall of Fame. These powerful stories limn the complexities and dilemmas of life in Kansas, a state at the center of the center of America. Milward explores the...
Steven Torriano Berry reads from Tears, a novel that explores the relationship of two young boys as they grow into young men, and the lasting impact of racism on their lives.
Steven Torriano Berry is an award winning filmmaker and associate...
The elegy offers one of poetry’s most appealing consolations: it can transform loss—and even the threat of loss—into an artful presence. This session explores how reading contemporary elegies and engaging in elegiac writing can help us...
In this hour Chehak explores the possibilities and the limitations of storytelling in the context of time, moving from concept to craft, principle to process, the phenomenon of time in the real world to our own recreation of it on the written page....
This talk explores the beauty of limitation, whether it be something as simple as a deadline or a self-imposed structure for a scene, a poem, or an essay. Even the constraints of our lives (time! job! space! family!) can serve the muse. Many...
Harry Brod reads from Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way. With great wit and compelling arguments, Brod situates superheroes within the course of Jewish-American history: they...
Poets Gerald Stern, Haki Madhubuti, James Galvin, and Marvin Bell reflect on the state of American poetry. Gerald Stern reads and remarks on poems by Williams Carlos Williams, Muriel Rukeyser, and Allen Ginsberg. Haki Madubuti argues that poetry...
Poet Richard Jackson reads from his new collection Heartwall. An American poet known for his humanitarian and literary work in the Balkans. Jackson's beautifully woven language explores the complex relationship between the personal and political,...
Scholar, editor, and avant-garde writer Curtis White reads from his new book The Middle Mind: Why Americans Don't Think for Themselves. White explores why our minds are going to mush, and he takes to task, NPR's Terry Gross, George W.Bush, American...