Poetry

Articles:
Middle East Reading and Lecture Tour Presents to Saudi Literati
Aeronwy Thomas and Peter Thabit Jones to Present a Dylan Thomas Tribute
Workshop Authors Named 2008 Guggenheim Fellows
IWP Alum Clifton Wins Irish Poetry Award
The Patient Voice Project Awarded Major Project Grant
Workshop Faculty and Alumni Finalists for L.A. Times Book Prize
Robert Hass in Tel Aviv
eXchanges Winter Issue “Black and White” Released
Formal Application Seeks to Designate Iowa City as UNESCO City of Literature
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Affiliated Authors Robert Hass and Denis Johnson Win National Book Awards
Alice Notley Receives the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Review: Mimi Khalvati’s newest collection ‘The Meanest Flower’
UI Doctors Practice Creativity as Part of Writing Group
Readings and Reviews: ‘Poems From Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak’
Video Podcast: Jordan Stempleman
Grace Paley, Writer and Activist, Dies at Age 84
IWP Alumni Oscar Hahn Wins “Premio del Consejo Nacional del Libro” Prize
Charles Simic named 2007 Poet Laureate
UI’s Literary Tradition Helps Iowa City Become “Best in the Midwest”
From the VWU Archive: “Poets Against the War”
“Murmur,” by John Casteen
“Spoon and Tree,” by Sara London
UI Press Anthology ‘Primary Care’ Reviewed
Sandra Lim Poem in ‘Verse Daily’
From the VWU Archive: Eleni Sikelianos Reads from ‘The California Poem’
Listen: Ben Lerner and Geoffrey O’Brien at Prairie Lights Books
UI Press Releases Iowa Poetry Prize Winners
To Do: “Translating the Music of Poetry,” ‘Best New Poets,’ and Tony Eprile on the Art of Seeing
Listen: Sam Witt at Prairie Lights Books
Listen: Ryan Van Meter and Vershawn Ashanti Young
Listen: Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Zapruder, and Matthew Rohrer at Prairie Lights
Listen: Dobby Gibson, Amanda Nadelberg, and Matthew Hart at Prairie Lights
At the Iowa Writers’ Workshop: Kiran Desai & Richard Kenney
Joshua Kryah Reads from ‘Glean’
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumni in ‘Bookforum’
“The Yard’s Reason,” by Jan Weissmiller
‘Sentiment and the Sentimental’ in W.D. Snodgrass’s Poetry
New Issue of ‘91st Meridian’ Online
UI Press To Publish Detainee Poetry Collection
Iowa Writers’ Workshop Alumnae in ‘Boston Review’
To Do: ‘Returns’ and Writers’ Workshop Faculty Reading
W.D. Snodgrass and Lia Purpura Finalists for NBCC Awards
Poetry Class for Older Adults
Oscar Hahn
“In a Minute there is Time for a Hundred Indecisions”

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Past Events:
Whenever We Feel Like It poetry reading, 5/03/08
Dean Young reading, 5/02/08
Paul Muldoon reading, 5/01/08
Paul Muldoon Q & A, 5/01/08
Martha Grimes reading and talk, 4/30/08
Aeronwy Thomas & Peter Thabit-Jones reading, 4/28/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure lecture, 4/25/08
Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure reading, 4/24/08
Marvin Bell reading and discussion, 4/24/08
Edward Hirsch reading, 4/23/08
Best New Poets 2007 reading, 4/22/08
Undergraduate Writing Contest reading, 4/16/08
Fall and Spring Semesters: Writers Knit, second Sunday of every month, 4/13/08
Louise Glück reading, 4/09/08
Louise Gluck After-Reading Party, 4/09/08
Rachel Zucker reading, 4/07/08
Peter Waldor reading, 4/03/08
Terese Svoboda reading, 3/28/08
Kate Greenstreet & Kate Northrop reading, 3/07/08
Joyelle McSweeney & Johannas Goransson reading, 3/03/08
Reception for ‘Poets For Hope’ Reading, 2/28/08
Mary Ruefle reading, 2/27/08
Doug Thorpe reading, 2/22/08
Old Capitol Film Series, 2/22/08
Sheryl St. Germain reading, 2/21/08
After-Reading Party for Samantha Chang and Matthea Harvey, 2/20/08
Andrea Hollander Budy reading, 2/15/08
111 Church Street Event: “Submitting Work for Publication”, 2/06/08
Tim Fay reading, 1/25/08
An Evening of Poetry, 1/22/08
Talk Art Cabaret, 12/12/07
William Blake’s Birthday reading, 11/28/07
Michelle Taransky & Jordan Stempleman reading, 11/13/07
Talk: Kirpal Singh on “Edwin Thumboo: Creating a Nation Though Poetry”, 11/09/07
Max Winter & Michael Dumanis, 11/08/07
Book Launch- “Edwin Thumboo: Creating A Nation Through Poetry”, 11/08/07
Talk: “Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover”, 11/08/07
Donald Revell Q & A, 11/08/07
Donald Revell reading, 11/07/07
ICPL Panel: Images of America, 11/02/07
Joshua Weiner reading, 11/01/07
Small Press Publishing Q & A with Sarah Gorham, the executive editor of Sarabande Press, 10/31/07
Spring Ulmer reading, 10/30/07
Between the Lines Conference: Roundtable Discussion, 10/30/07
Between the Lines Conference: Terry Hermsen, 10/30/07
The World of Creole Languages: Thoughts from Haiti and Jamaica, 10/29/07
Between the Lines Conference: Dean Young, 10/29/07
John Matthias reading, 10/23/07
Kei Miller reading, 10/22/07
International Literature Today, 10/22/07
Saturday Scholars Lecture: “Ethical Activism in the Poetry of Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver”, 10/20/07
International Writing Program Friday Reading, 10/19/07
Marvin Bell reading, 10/17/07
Panel: State of the Art: Literature From Where I Stand, 10/12/07
Tomaž Šalamun Q & A, 10/12/07
Panel: Creating and Promoting African Literature, 10/11/07
Tony Hoagland and Jonathan Ames reading, 10/10/07
Discussion: The World’s Voice In Our Ear: Influences of World Literature on Writing and Writer, 10/09/07
ILT Panel: Reading the Other, 10/08/07
Tony Hoagland lecture, 10/05/07
Jorie Graham reading, 10/04/07
Jorie Graham Q & A, 10/04/07
Fall Semester, Mondays, 4:00-6:00 pm:  3rd Year Poet’s Workshop, 10/01/07
Art Share reading, 9/30/07
Tessa Rumsey and Anthony Swofford reading, 9/28/07
Cathy Park Hong and Jenny Mueller reading, 9/20/07
Talk Art Cabaret, 9/05/07
Mark Falkoff: Poems from Guantanamo Reading, 9/04/07
David Hamilton Reading, 8/29/07
John D. Thompson Reading, 7/24/07
Douglas Goetsch Reading, 7/16/07
William Ford Reading, 7/10/07
James Autry Reading, 6/21/07
Geoffrey O’Brien & Ben Lerner Reading, 4/26/07
‘Earthwords’ Reading, 4/25/07
Lyn Hejinian Reading, 4/20/07
Lyn Hejinian Q&A, 4/20/07
Joshua Weiner Reading CANCELLED, 4/19/07
Nicholas Pesquès & Cole Swensen Bi-Lingual Poetry Reading, 4/18/07
Cole Swensen and Dean Young Reading, 4/17/07
‘Best New Poets 2006’ Reading, 4/12/07
Alexis Levitin, “Translating the Music of Poetry”, 4/11/07
Robert von Hallberg, “The Recovery of Sentiment in Popular U.S. Poetry of the 1940s and 1950s”, 4/06/07
James Sullivan, “Poetry Broadsides: Looking at the Printed Poem, Holding It in Your Hand”, 4/06/07
James Sullivan, “American Poetry Broadsides of the Last 40 Years”, 4/06/07
Poetries Symposium Luncheon Sessions, 4/06/07
“The Futures of Poetry Studies” Panel, 4/06/07
Cary Nelson, “When Context Is All: The Specificity of Popular Poetry”, 4/05/07
Sam Witt Reading, 4/05/07
Vershawn Ashanti Young Reading, 3/30/07
Jaswinder Bolina, Matthew Rohrer and Matthew Zapruder Reading, 3/29/07
Richard Kenney Q&A, 3/29/07
Richard Kenney Reading, 3/28/07
Matt Hart & Amanda Nadelberg Reading, 3/26/07
Joshua Kryah Reading, 3/23/07
James Galvin Lecture: “Poetic Architecture and Rhythm in ‘The Sound and the Fury‘“, 3/23/07
Jon Woodward & Leslie Lewis Reading, 3/06/07
Robert von Hallberg, “The Recovery of Sentiment in Popular U.S. Poetry of the of the 1940s and 1950s, 3/06/07
Chris Glomski & Ray Bianchi Reading, 3/02/07
James Galvin & Tony Eprile Reading, 2/16/07