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A guest post by Bina Shah.[iae|313|r]Come, come, whoever you are.Worshipper, wanderer, lover of leaving, it doesn't matter.Ours is not a caravan of despairCome, even if you have broken your vows a thousand timesCome, yet again, come, come.- RumiOne...
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On Going Home is the name we've given to a short series of essays by our fall residents. We commissioned the pieces because we wanted to keep in touch and were curious about what the process of returning home was like for authors who'd spent...
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“Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything.What is this competition we feel then,before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?”─Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi Last Friday, 17 poets and writers from the U.S., Syria,...
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This week, the International Writing Program (IWP) adds Arabic, Polish, and the first-ever Malay translation of Walt Whitman’s famous poem “Song of Myself” to the 9-language WhitmanWeb multimedia gallery. The gallery, which presents one section of...
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Once you’ve written the first draft of a poem, what happens next? Find out by applying for the International Writing Program (IWP)’s upcoming Poetry Masterclass, one of two free 7-week virtual poetry seminars to be taught online through IWP Distance...
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“Writers in Burma have to find a way to penetrate censorship; we have to be more innovative in terms of techniques, style, technology…more creative” –Pandora (Burma/Myanmar)This month, the International Writing Program (IWP) released the 2012...
