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Jeffrey Brown reports on the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious postgraduate writing program for elite writers and poets. The workshop celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
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Kecia Lynn speaks with author Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.
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Kecia Lynn speaks with author Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.
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Kecia Lynn speaks with author Stephen Lovely, author of Irreplaceable and Director of the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio.
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Iowa City, Iowa has been named one of three world “Cities of Literature” by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It could be said that the city’s literary reputation began in 1936 with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was promoted to world prominence by poet Paul Engle.
Engle, a 1919 graduate of the University of Iowa not only made the Iowa Writers’ Workshop famous, he also co-founded with his wife, his wife, Hualing Nieh Engle, the International Writer’s Workshop, and was involved in organizing the National Council on the Arts.
This 1991 video contains excerpts from Iowa Public Television’s collection of programs about the poet. Also seen is his daughter, dancer Laulan King.
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Kecia Lynn speaks with author Yiyun Li, author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants.
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Author Ethan Canin discusses his experience with the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his unique writing process.
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Marilynne Robinson discusses characters, writing and teaching at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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Author Ethan Canin discusses the writing process of his newest novel “America America”.
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Author Ethan Canin discusses the movies based on his work.
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