Correspondence details the 1863 wartime experiences of James Mead, who joined the army in 1862 and served in both the Iowa Infantry Volunteers and the U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry.
Judy L. Buddenbaum writes: 'I was encouraged by Ms. Gertrude Hilmer and Mrs. Virginia Rumble, both high school English teachers at Tipton Consolidated School. I'm retired and now a resident of Iowa again. I have attended two weekends at the Iowa...
Robert Boswell is the author of six novels - including Century's Son, Mystery Ride, and Crooked Hearts - a play, a cyberpunk novel, and two nonfiction books. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and...
Milosz Biedrzycki's talk, titled "Jan Kochanowski: Across the Languages, Beyond the Boundaries," discusses the 16th-century poet, who wrote in Polish and Latin, and his centuries-long impact on Polish poetry. Andrea Hirata's talk, "Translating...
Aziz Nazmi Shakir-Tash suggests general meanings of the terms "migration," "diaspora," and "exile," relating stories of his own experiences--as well as those of Bulgarian Turks--to these meanings. Verena Tay's talk is titled, "You Are What You Eat:...