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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04/14/2023
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
04/13/2023
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
04/13/2023
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
04/12/2023
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
04/11/2023
Booklist starred review alert! Check out the full review here: https://www.booklistonline.com/The-Auburn-Conference-/pid=9775354
04/10/2023
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
04/08/2023
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
04/07/2023
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
04/05/2023
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.
04/04/2023
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?
04/01/2023
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
03/31/2023
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?
03/31/2023
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 🏳️⚧️
03/31/2023
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
03/29/2023
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
03/28/2023
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/
03/27/2023
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
03/25/2023
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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03/22/2023
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
03/21/2023
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
03/20/2023
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
03/19/2023
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/
03/16/2023
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/
03/15/2023
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
03/14/2023
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?
03/12/2023
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
03/11/2023
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!
03/11/2023
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
03/10/2023
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!
03/09/2023
is here! Come visit us at booth 1422; we’re next to The Iowa Review!
03/09/2023
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!'
03/08/2023
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!
03/05/2023
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
03/03/2023
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
03/01/2023
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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02/28/2023
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
02/28/2023
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
02/28/2023
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
02/27/2023
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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Today we’re spotlighting award-winning writer and director A. J. Bermudez’s ‘Stories No One Hopes Are about Them’, published by the University of Iowa Press.
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Bermudez explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are neither from here nor there straddle competing worlds, disrupt paradigms, and transition from objects of other people’s stories to active subjects and protagonists of their own.
“An absolutely brilliant collection…Bermudez’s debut left me in awe.” – Anthony Marra
Find out more on the bookstore.
At once playfully dark and slyly hopeful, Bermudez explores convergences of power, privilege, and place. Characters who are neither from here nor there straddle competing worlds, disrupt paradigms, and transition from objects of other people’s stories to active subjects and protagonists of their own.
“An absolutely brilliant collection…Bermudez’s debut left me in awe.” – Anthony Marra
Find out more on the bookstore.
"Iowa’s history is showing us that our present land management practices are unsustainable," writes reviewer William Blair. "Fortunately, those practices are being slowly supplanted by regenerative agriculture and the restoration of native biodiversity."
In a new book from University of Iowa Press, five experts on soil, hydrology, climate and ecosystems examine the problems plaguing Iowa's natural resources and discuss solutions.
In a new book from University of Iowa Press, five experts on soil, hydrology, climate and ecosystems examine the problems plaguing Iowa's natural resources and discuss solutions.
Have you registered yet for our next Public Scholarship panel on Publishing in the Public Humanities? It will have a humanities focus, but the topics covered will also be relevant to scholars in other fields. Please join us!
How do you publish on a co-creative community collaboration, a scholarly podcast, or a multimedia project that respects Indigenous protocols? How do you co-publish with a non-university community partner? What does peer review look like for publicly engaged scholarship?
For this panel and mini workshop event, we’ve invited three editors representing different university presses in Canada and the U.S. to present on publication opportunities for publicly engaged work. Following the panel, editors will host individual breakout sessions with a smaller cohort of registrants for a more focused discussion session.
Panelists:
- Darcy Cullen, Founder of RavenSpace Publishing & Assistant Director, Acquisitions at UBC Press
-Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies & Co-Editor of the Humanities and Public Life Book Series at University of Iowa Press
-Siobhan McMenemy, Co-Director of the Amplify Podcast Network & Senior Editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press
-Paige Raibmon (Moderator), Professor, UBC Department of History & Editor, BC Studies
Thursday, February 9, 2023
10:00 am-12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Online via Zoom
Register to save your spot:
How do you publish on a co-creative community collaboration, a scholarly podcast, or a multimedia project that respects Indigenous protocols? How do you co-publish with a non-university community partner? What does peer review look like for publicly engaged scholarship?
For this panel and mini workshop event, we’ve invited three editors representing different university presses in Canada and the U.S. to present on publication opportunities for publicly engaged work. Following the panel, editors will host individual breakout sessions with a smaller cohort of registrants for a more focused discussion session.
Panelists:
- Darcy Cullen, Founder of RavenSpace Publishing & Assistant Director, Acquisitions at UBC Press
-Teresa Mangum, Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies & Co-Editor of the Humanities and Public Life Book Series at University of Iowa Press
-Siobhan McMenemy, Co-Director of the Amplify Podcast Network & Senior Editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press
-Paige Raibmon (Moderator), Professor, UBC Department of History & Editor, BC Studies
Thursday, February 9, 2023
10:00 am-12:30 pm (Pacific Time)
Online via Zoom
Register to save your spot:
On February 9, join UBC Public Humanities and editors from UBC Press, University of Iowa Press, Wilfrid Laurier University Press and BC Studies to discuss publication opportunities for publicly engaged work.
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On the feed today is one from University of Iowa Press! 'Khabaar' is a food memoir and personal narrative that braids the global journeys of South Asian food through immigration, migration, and indenture.
Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country.
Find out more on the bookstore.
Focusing on chefs, home cooks, and food stall owners, the book questions what it means to belong and what does belonging in a new place look like in the foods carried over from the old country.
Find out more on the bookstore.
Tonight, tonight, tonight! Delighted to virtually host Nancy Reddy and Emily Pérez at 7pm ET! Co-editors of last year's anthology THE LONG DEVOTION: POETS WRITING MOTHERHOOD (University of Georgia Press), they'll read from & discuss their latest books, POCKET UNIVERSE (LSU Press) and WHAT FLIES WANT (University of Iowa Press), as well as motherhood, creativity, and the writing life.
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"The collection, read one way, is about growing up under the influence of stories and songs. But it’s also about how all of us bring to bear, in adulthood, the art and ideas we were exposed to as kids, about the way we use those things to help us get our bearings."
M. Randal O'Wain interviews Drew Bratcher on BUB. University of Iowa Press
M. Randal O'Wain interviews Drew Bratcher on BUB. University of Iowa Press
It's our second virtual event of 2023, and we're delighted to be hosting Nancy Reddy and Emily Pérez! Co-editors of last year's anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood (University of Georgia Press), we're celebrating their latest, Pocket Universe (LSU Press) and What Flies Want (University of Iowa Press). 1/25 at 7pm ET!
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Continuing our Christmas lists theme and this time it's what Dave wants.
Dave wants "Welcome To Dragon Talk" by Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito, published by the University of Iowa Press
It's a book written by the hosts of the official D&D podcast all about that experience.
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/welcome-dragon-talk
Dave wants "Welcome To Dragon Talk" by Shelly Mazzanoble and Greg Tito, published by the University of Iowa Press
It's a book written by the hosts of the official D&D podcast all about that experience.
https://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/welcome-dragon-talk
Our Book of the Day is "Fretwork" by Michele Glazer (University of Iowa Press). Of Michele Glazer's extraordinary new poetry collection, Mary Szybist writes, "In 'Fretwork' [Glazer] is at her most personal, most grief-stricken, most original, and most spare ... Silence is both her tool and her subject, what she cuts with and through in order to remain attentive. Each hard-won moment is part of the push and pull of a mind alert and flexible enough to move and leap and recalibrate as it needs to. This is superb writing, always precise, unpredictable, authentic to its searching, unnervingly alive. I love this book for all the ways in which it remains gobsmackingly present to real bewilderment, while inhabiting a receptivity continually reoriented by care." If you’re in the mood for a collection of "devastating, funny, unsettling, and radiant" poems (Joanna Klink), stop by the store or call us on 512-322-2097.
The Graduate College is highlighting the accomplishments of the International Writing Program, University of Iowa Center for the Book, School of Library and Information Science, University of Iowa School of Planning and Public Affairs, and University of Iowa Press over the last year.
Read the article at: https://grad.uiowa.edu/news/2022/11/graduate-college-programs-excel-2021-2022.
Read the article at: https://grad.uiowa.edu/news/2022/11/graduate-college-programs-excel-2021-2022.
We miss Chuy Renteria's presence on the Hancher staff every day even as we continue to deeply admire his work for the UI's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team. (We know our friends in the University of Iowa Department of Dance are proud of him, too!)
His memoir, We Heard It When We Were Young, is an important look at Iowa from a perspective that is not always centered when people think about the State of Iowa. Through a collaboration with University of Iowa Libraries, the audio version of the book (published by University of Iowa Press) is available to everyone at no cost.
We're biased, but we think it is exceptional work.
His memoir, We Heard It When We Were Young, is an important look at Iowa from a perspective that is not always centered when people think about the State of Iowa. Through a collaboration with University of Iowa Libraries, the audio version of the book (published by University of Iowa Press) is available to everyone at no cost.
We're biased, but we think it is exceptional work.
Join us here at the Co-op Friday, 12/2 at 6pm for a conversation with Joseph G. Peterson on "Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society" (from University of Iowa Press). He will be joined in conversation by Giano Cromley.
Register Here: http://ow.ly/3L3G50KCIKP
Register Here: http://ow.ly/3L3G50KCIKP
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Douglas Bauer about his book The Beckoning World. "The novel spans four decades and the breadth of the continent..." Bauer will read virtually from The Beckoning World at Prairie Lights Bookstore 1/18 @ 7pm.
New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author A.J. Bermudez about her book 'Stories No One Hopes Are About Them.' "These stories are truly all over the map––career criminals and lovable orphans are treated with equal respect..."
“…my recommendation to you is that you leave the drama on the page; don’t bring it to your publishing life. The rest is noise.” Madhushree Ghosh, author of Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family (University of Iowa Press), offers advice for other debut authors: at.pw.org/MadhushreeGhosh
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