WU Podcast: Workshop/IWP Reading > Nkengasong, Eltayeb and Talone

In this Writing University podcast, Iowa Writers' Workshop student Bridget Talone reads with International Writing Program participants John Nkengasong and Tarek Eltayeb at Prairie Lights Bookstore in downtown Iowa City. Talone reads from her work, including "Dear God With Rocks in My Mouth," a poem in six parts. Nkengasong shares part of his recent novel The Widow's Might and Eltayeb reads poems from his collection Brittle Conversation, in both German and English.

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John Nkengasong, Tarek Eltayeb and Bridget Talone

Bridget TALONE grew up outside of Philadelphia, attended Sarah Lawrence College and worked at the Dodge Poetry Festival before coming to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has poems published in Tin House magazine.

John Nkemngong NKENGASONG (Novelist, Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright; Cameroon) is a prolific writer and literary critic whose work ranges across genres and disciplines. He has published two novels (most recently The Widow's Might (2006) and Across the Mongolo, 2004), one play (Black Caps and Red Feathers, 2001), and his poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies throughout Africa and the United States. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Yaounde 1, Cameroon.

Tarek ELTAYEB (novelist, fiction writer, poet, playwright; Austria) was born in Cairo to Sudanese parents and educated in Austria. He has published five collections of poems, most recently Bacd Az-Zann [‘Certain Suspicions’] (2007), two novels Bayt An-Nakhil [‘The Palm House’] (2006), and Mudun Bila Nakhil [‘Cities Without Palms’] (1992), two short story collections, and a play El-Asanser [‘The Elevator’], (1992). His writings have been translated into several languages, including English.

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February 27, 2009
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