Born and raised in Iowa City, Ilse Bendorf earned her BA in English from the University of Iowa in 2009. She spent a summer in Dublin through UI's Irish Writing Program, and she's also been a farmhand in Oregon and an intern in Congress. Other...
Rachel Leigh is in the seventh grade at South East Junior High School in Iowa City. Her poem was selected for the 2007 Poetry in Public project, sponsored by the Iowa City Public Art Program. Now in its fifth year, Poetry in Public displays poems...
Responses received from an invitation to the dedication program of the Nile Kinnick - Bob Feller Historical Marker at the Town and Country Fair in Adel, Iowa, August 9 , 1964.
Letters to and from Kinnick, a student leader, scholar, athlete, and naval officer from Iowa. This correspondence is chiefly letters to and from his family during his first semester of law school. Also included are letters regarding his...
Story, William Wetmore, 1819-1895; Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859; Lee, S. Adams (Samuel Adams);
Concerning America's shabby treatment of Hunt. Story's propositions to Ticknor, Fields & Co.; their willingness to publish Hunt's Complete poems in two volumes, 30 pounds to be given to Hunt with ten percent of the sales after expenses paid;...