
04/17/2023
The Iowa Poetry Prize is open to both new and established poets! Be sure to submit your 50-150 page manuscript by the end of this month!
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
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The Iowa Poetry Prize is open to both new and established poets! Be sure to submit your 50-150 page manuscript by the end of this month!
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
Today is the 195th anniversary of Noah Webster’s AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE! Webster’s dictionary was the first dictionary written for American dialects of English. At the time of its publication, the United States had only been independent for about 50 years. The project was massive, and was extremely important in shaping the American spelling of words,
For more information, check out this article from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary website! https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/noah-webster-dictionary
Virtual event alert! Join New Hampshire Poet Laureate Alexandria Peary for a Zoom workshop about mindful writing! Mindful writing is the nonjudgmental observation of the ever-changing present. This workshop will provide an overview of mindful writing techniques that you will be able to turn to again and again in your daily life!
Register for the Zoom here: https://manchesterinklink.com/this-very-moment-is-perfect-for-writing-april-14-zoom-with-nh-poet-laureate/
And check out Peary’s prize winning collection here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/control-bird-alt-delete
Event alert! Next Friday, as part of the 133rd Annual Iowa Academy of Science meeting, join TENDING IOWA’S LAND contributors for an evening of discussion about Iowa’s complex biodiversity, its role in Iowa ecosystems, and what we can do to return to a time when Iowa’s native biodiversity and its people could both call Iowa home. This event is free and open to the public!
To learn more, click here: https://www.scienceiniowa.org/invited-speakers
And to check out TENDING IOWA’S LAND, head over to our website here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/tending-iowas-land
This excerpt comes from WHAT FLIES WANT by Emily Pérez. In What Flies Want, disaster looms in domesticity: a family grapples with its members’ mental health, a marriage falters, and a child experiments with self-harm. With its backdrop of school lockdown drills, , and increasing political polarization, the collection asks how these private and public tensions are interconnected.
WHAT FLIES WANT is a recipient of the Iowa Poetry prize! Submissions for the Iowa Poetry Prize are open throughout the month of April. Poets looking to publish a manuscript, enter your work by the end of this month for a chance to be published by the University of Iowa Press!
Check out the book here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/what-flies-want
And learn more about the Iowa Poetry Prize here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
Booklist starred review alert! Check out the full review here: https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Auburn-Conference-/pid=9775354
Continuing poetry month, enjoy this selection from IN KIND by Maggie Queeney! Part wunderkammer, part grimoire, Maggie Queeney’s In Kind is focused on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of generations of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence, before designing a transformation and rebirth. These are poems of witness, self-creation, and reclamation.
IN KIND is a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize! If you are a poet looking to publish a manuscript, enter your work by the end of this month for a chance to be published by the University of Iowa Press.
Check out the book here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/kind
And learn more about the Iowa Poetry Prize here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
We're celebrating National Poetry Month (+ the month to submit your poetry collection for the Iowa Poetry Prize) by highlighting winners of the Iowa Poetry Prize!
LO by Melissa Crowe maps the deprivation and richness of a rural girlhood and renders a tentative and shimmering space sometimes occluded, the space occupied by a girl coming to find herself and the world beautiful, even as that world harms her. It truly is, in quite a beautiful way, an OMG worthy collection!
Check out the book here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/lo
And learn more about the Iowa Poetry Prize here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
The Iowa Poetry Prize is open for submissions through the month of April! If you’re a poet with a book-length collection, submit your work for a chance to be published with the University of Iowa Press.
Interested? Learn more here! https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
It's so exciting to see Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito, authors of WELCOME TO DRAGON TALK sharing their tips for entering the world of D&D in USA TODAY!
The role-playing game 'Dungeons & Dragons' has lasted nearly 50 years in pop culture and could enjoy more prominence with a new film in theaters.
Today is Maya Angelou’s birthday (born this day in 1928; died May 28, 2014). Angelou is one of the most influential poets in American history. A prolific artist, she is also known for her seven autobiographies, her role as Hollywood’s first black female director, and her work as a civil rights activist. One theme that remains consistent through all of Angelou’s expansive career is the importance self love and growth in the building of communities. To celebrate Angelou’s birthday, think about ways that you handle the challenges you and your community face. How do you rise in the face of adversity?
Calling all poets: the Iowa Poetry Prize is officially open for submissions! This award is open to new and established poets. We are looking for manuscripts 50-150 pages in length; poems included in your manuscript may have appeared in journals or anthologies. The winning manuscript will be published by the University of Iowa Press!
For more details, click here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
Check out this article in American Theatre magazine from Mallory Catlett and Aaron Landsman
“We are hoping to go beyond simply ‘giving voice’—by itself another form of representation that doesn’t always produce results—toward new civic structures and potential systemic change.”
https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/03/28/are-you-even-here-or-are-you-just-represented/](https://www.americantheatre.org/2023/03/28/are-you-even-here-or-are-you-just-represented
2 artists who’ve explored the ways city politics are like theatre wonder: What might theatre learn from city politics?
Today is Trans Day of Visibility! This day is dedicated to celebrating the achievements of transgender and gender nonconforming individuals around the world, acknowledging the courage it takes to live openly and authentically, and raising awareness of the work that still needs to be done to achieve trans justice. Thrive on today 🏳️⚧️
Book sale alert! FEMINIST REHEARSALS: GENDER AT THE THEATRE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARGENTINA AND MEXICO by May Summer Farnsworth is now 40% off!
“FEMINIST REHEARSALS is an impressive study of the political, sociocultural, and intellectual struggles women playwrights, actresses, and activist pioneers experienced during the early twentieth century in Argentina and Mexico. With a fresh look at feminist theory and practice, Farnsworth offers a crucial analysis regarding the role women had in the public sphere through the lens of theatre and performance studies.”—Paola Hernández, author, STAGING LIVES IN LATIN AMERICAN THEATER: BODIES, OBJECTS, ARCHIVES
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/feminist-rehearsals
Hot off the press! FEMINIST REHEARSALS: GENDER AT THE THEATRE IN EARLY TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARGENTINA AND MEXICO by May Summer Farnsworth is now available!
“An authoritative, nuanced, and thoughtful analysis of the role of feminist political and aesthetic movements in Argentina and Mexico, Feminist Rehearsals offers new insights into how women in the Americas create space for feminist spectatorship in the twentieth century. This book is for anyone engaged in feminist performance scholarship.” — E. J. Westlake, Ohio State University
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/feminist-rehearsals
THE BECKONING WORLD by Douglas Bauer has been reviewed by Paul Eberly for Compulsive Reader !
“Moments of sufficient import to merit rendering on the printed page ought, in principle, to contain layers of meaning that writers of lesser empathy or patience may struggle to uncover. And there’s always that easier-to-answer siren call of the next scrap of dialogue, the next paragraph, the next scene. Bauer, a spelunker of the human soul, knows to resist that call, to remain in the moment until its particular kernel of truth lies, unearthed, often startlingly revealed. … It’s that curve ball, you see. Life lets fly, we swing, mostly we miss, but the ball will have its way. It changes us. Bauer knows this.”
Read the Review Here: https://compulsivereader.com/2023/03/05/a-review-of-the-beckoning-world-by-douglas-bauer/
This selection was taken from HIGH GROUND COWARD, by Alicia Mountain
An urgent and astonishing collection of poetry that works at revealing the divinity of doubt, the entanglement of devotion, and the dominion that place holds over us. Bearing witness to identity formation in solitude and communion, HIGH GROUND COWARD is an almanac of emotional and relational seasons.
Check out the book here! https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/high-ground-coward
The Iowa Poetry Prize opens in just five days! If you’re a poet, consider submitting your work for a chance to be published with the University of Iowa Press alongside books such as HIGH GROUND COWARD!
Read more about the Iowa Poetry Prize here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
Today we remember beloved author Beverly Cleary. Best known for her RAMONA series, which follows a creative young girl named Ramona Quimby, Cleary has shaped generations of children's experiences with reading. Kids all over the United States saw themselves reflected in the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of Cleary’s protagonists, who really were just kids like them – cat-faced Q’s and all.
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Enjoy this excerpt from THE BOOK OF JANE, a perceptive, tenacious investigation of gender, authority, and art, within which Jennifer Habel draws a contrast between the archetype of the lone male genius and the circumscribed, relational lives of women.
Check out the book here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/book-jane
THE BOOK OF JANE is also a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize! This year’s prize will be open for submission throughout the month of April. If you’re a poet, consider submitting your work for a chance to be published with the University of Iowa Press!
Learn more about the Iowa Poetry Prize here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/resources/prospective-authors/iowa-poetry-prize
Event alert for our friends in Iowa City! Next Monday, March 27th, join editor Connie Mutel and author Nick Herbold at @Sidekick Coffee and Books for a reading of TENDING IOWA’S LAND, a new collection of environmental essays about building a sustainable future for the state of Iowa! This event begins at 7:00pm, and several of the authors featured in the book will be present for discussion and questions. We hope to see you there!
For more information about this event, click here: https://www.sidekickcoffeebooks.com/events
Spring has begun! We hope the day finds you emerging from your winter doldrums and taking a walk in the fresh air. As you enjoy the start of this season of beginnings, take “Today” by Billy Collins with you as a reminder of what goodness is to come!
Read the poem here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/40824/today-56d21ebdad746
Event alert for our Iowa City folk! Prairie Preview is THIS WEEK! Join keynote speaker Connie Mutel and the at the for a vendor fair, as well as speaking sessions about the future of Iowa’s land! Prairie Preview begins at 4:30pm and admission is free!
Check out the event here! https://buroaklandtrust.org/prairiepreview2023/
Iowa City friends: Prairie Preview is coming up! Hosted by the this event is a fun gathering for locals interested in sustainability and green living. This year’s keynote speaker is author and conservationist Connie Mutel! Come down to the on March 23rd to participate in this celebration of nature!
For more information, check out the event here: https://buroaklandtrust.org/prairiepreview2023/
Today is the LAST DAY to get select new releases for just $10! Use code IAAWP23 on our website to check it out: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/sale
Today is Albert Einstein’s birthday! Einstein is one of the most influential physicists of all time, and in life he was a voracious reader. He believed that stimulating the imagination allowed one to embrace the whole world at once, opening up avenues to creation and understanding that allow for the progression of society. Do you know where your nearest library is?
AWP23 may be over, but our book sale is available through March 15th! Grab these standout titles and more – all for $10! Use code IAAWP23 on our website here to shop the sale: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/sale
2023 final day's schedule has a bunch of panels you won't want to miss! We're also sill here for you over in the Book Fair too, booth 1422!
This beautiful excerpt is from Hajar Hussaini’s DISBOUND. The poems of DISBOUND scrutinize the social, political, and historical traces inherited from one’s language. They seek beauty and understanding in sadness and confusion, and find the chance for love in displacement, even as the space for reconciliation in politics and thought seems to get narrower.
Check out the collection here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/disbound
DISBOUND is part of our week-long AWP sale! Use code IAAWP23 on our website to pick up a copy of this book and other select titles for only $10!
For more information on the sale, check out our sales page here: https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/sale
2023 it's another day full of interesting and thought-proving panels, and if you need a break come find us in the book fair at booth 1422!
is here! Come visit us at booth 1422; we’re next to The Iowa Review!
2023 if you're not going to spend all day at the book fair, check out these great panels! And remember, we will be at booth 1422 to shop the sale or just stop in and say 'hi!'
Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2023 conference starts tomorrow! We are so excited to be attending this event in person, and what better way is there to celebrate than a book sale? Visit us at the book fair or online! Starting tomorrow, use code IAAWP23 to get select new titles for only $10 or visit us at booth 1422 to shop the sale in person.
Attending ? Check out the panel schedule below to catch up with some of our authors and friends!
Happy birthday to our office manager, Angie! This year we're celebrating birthdays around the Press with book recommendations. Angie’s favorite recent reads are MEMORANDUM FROM THE IOWA CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY by Joseph G. Peterson and LET LOVE RULE by Lenny Kravitz!
MEMORANDUM FROM THE IOWA CLOUD APPRECIATION SOCIETY by Joseph G. Peterson
When his girlfriend asks about his life, Jim Moore doesn’t think there is anything to say and so he tells her “nothing happened,” or maybe he doesn’t know how to put it all into words or maybe he doesn’t want to. Like the pilgrims in Chaucer’s THE CANTERBURY TALES who pass the time telling stories while stranded in the Tabard Inn, MEMORANDUM tells the tale of a traveling salesman and what really happened over the course of his forty- six years.
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/memorandum-iowa-cloud-appreciation-society
LET LOVE RULE by Lenny Kravitz
"Let Love Rule is a work of deep reflection. Lenny Kravitz looks back at his life with candor, self-scrutiny, and humor.
‘My life is all about opposites,’ he writes. ‘Black and white. Jewish and Christian. The Jackson 5 and Led Zeppelin. I accepted my Gemini soul. I owned it. I adored it. Yins and yangs mingled in various parts of my heart and mind, giving me balance and fueling my curiosity and comfort.’
Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles’s Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England, and Germany."
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250113085/letloverule
Today is Read Across America Day! Celebrated in schools nationwide, Read Across America is dedicated to promoting children and teenagers’s interest in reading through engaging activities, fun monthly reading themes, and most importantly an ever-updating list of book recommendations that encourage younger readers to recognize themselves on the page. If you have a young reader in your life, take a second today to consider how you can foster their love of reading!
For more information and some great book suggestions, check out the NEA’s Read Across America Calendar here! https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/read-across-america/2022-2023-calendar
In case you missed it, check out author Caroline Baker on influencers + the legendary Butch Walker with amazing stories of making music + and more!
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Event alert for our friends in Decorah! Join Beth Lynch, Rebecca Kauten, Chris Jones, and Andy Johnson for a reading hosted by Dragonfly Books! This event will be held tomorrow, March 1st, at 7:00pm, and is sure to be a great time!
For more details, check out this link: https://www.dragonflybooks.com/events/23026
Virtual event alert! Join Mark Ernest Pothier and nine fellow debut fiction authors in the first ever POETS & WRITERS Get the Word Out! live reading series! This event will be held today over Zoom, and features a short reading from each author’s book. It is sure to be an engaging evening of new fiction!
RSVP for the link here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0lce-uqDwtGNEYFJDG1tC_W-pL6FFBfBhc
Natural history museums are beautifully unsettling, as captured in this excerpt from Iowa Poetry Prize winner Maggie Queeney's forthcoming collection IN KIND. Part wunderkammer, part grimoire, IN KIND is focused on survival. A chorus of personae, speaking into and through a variety of poetic forms, guide the reader through the aftermath of generations of domestic, gendered, and sexual violence, before designing a transformation and rebirth. These are poems of witness, self-creation, and reclamation.
Check out the book here!
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/kind
Check out MQR: Mixtape for an excerpt from THE CLEVELAND HEIGHTS LGBTQ SCI-FI AND FANTASY ROLE PLAYING CLUB by Doug Henderson!
NEW MIXTAPE ALERT!
We are delighted to share with you the latest issue of our graduate student-led Mixtape. This issue revolves around the theme of fandoms, online communities, and identities on the internet, and it features work by:
Sarah Harder
Hannah Cohen
Douglas Henderson
McKenzie Zalopany
Devon Halliday
Michael Colbert
Read the full online zine now: https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/
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DAY 2 of the Socially Distanced Iowa State Fair CHALLENGE: Prepare for movie night! Make some popcorn and set up an outdoor theater; it's way easier (and more affordable) than you think! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeSnyL1AOYA What movies get you in the festival mood? We're also keeping the fun going with our Iowa State Fair book sale! From now to August 22nd, check out our sale books. Find them here: https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/sale-books!
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