Allegheny Insurance Co., Pittsburgh -- ad card with formal reminder of date of expiration of policy printed on one side (c. 1880's) -- Armstrong Cork Company, St. Louis -- business card printed on paper-thin piece of genuine cork (n.d.) -- William...
J.W.Butler Paper Co., Chicago -- folder advertising the company's fancy stationery with calendar for 1890 inside -- ad folder for commencement folders, souvenir programs, napkins, and letter stationery (1893) -- ad folder for "National Bank Bond"...
Western Paper Company, Omaha, Nebraska -- brochure warning printers of scarcity of paper in next few months (1900) -- Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Philadelphia -- ad folder for commencement stationery (1899) -- The Champion Coated Paper Co.,...
American Paper Company, Chicago -- ad folder printed on American Book paper (n.d.) -- Andrews & Lewerth, Inc., New York -- folder introducing E.P. Archibald, recently-appointed salesman (n.d.) -- Ashcroft Manufacturing Company, New York -- 2 copies...
Leah de Matta is in the seventh grade at North Central Junior High School in North Liberty, Iowa. 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...
Honor Moore, a visiting faculty member in the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program, is joined by poet Tom Healy for a reading at Prairie Lights Book Store.
Moore will read selections from her poetry and lyric essay. She is well known for...
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...
Ghada Abdel Aal of Egypt begins the panel by discussing how she made the leap from blogging to professional writing. She explains that she began blogging as a way to express her feelings and observations in a “safe” forum. In closing, she...