Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”

In this podcast, recorded on 6/19/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses novelist and poet Jim Heynen discusses the relationship between content and form. Heynen advises writers to revisit thematic "obsessions" and to attempt "re-exploring the same material in different forms" in order to reach new depths of meaning from one medium to another. Heynen illustrates this concept using examples from his own experiments with both prose and poetry including selections from the award-winning novel Being Youngest.

Listen: Jim Heynan presents "Same Content/Different Form," at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, 6/19/07

Caryl Pagel introduces Jim Heynan's presentation.

Jim Heynen is a native of rural northwest Iowa and currently writer-in-residence at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. His most recent collection of short stories, The Boys' House, was named an Editors' Choice Book of the Year by Booklist, The Bloomsbury Review, and Newsday. His most recent novel is Cosmos Coyote and William The Nice. His 1997 novel, Being Youngest, was a Young Hoosier Book Award winner. Other recent books include Standing Naked: New and Selected Poems, and Fishing for Chickens: Stories about Rural Youth (ed.). Earlier books include The One-Room Schoolhouse and the nonfiction book One Hundred Over 100. He has frequently been featured on National Public Radio reading his own stories and has been awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in both poetry and fiction.

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June 20, 2007
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