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How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Eight: Revision and Rediscovery
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Seven: Constraints and Styles
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Six: Structures and Storytelling
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Five: Animating the World
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Four: Learning and Building the World
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Three: Putting Setting to Work
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class Two: Opening Lines, Opening Doors
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Fiction 2014 - Class One: Introduction to Writing Practices
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE FICTION 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Fall 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Twelve: Free Verse
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Eleven: Looking Outward
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Ten: Sonic Association
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Nine: Constraint Based Poetry
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Eight: Poetry as Pleasure
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Seven: Other People's Words
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Six: Containing Multitudes
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Five: Prosody (Meter)
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Four: Mindful Writing
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Three: Building a Poem
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class Two: Collecting and Repurposing Lines
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
How Writers Write Poetry 2014 - Class One: Sketching Techniques
This class video was originally featured in HOW WRITERS WRITE POETRY 2014, a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Summer 2014
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning MOOC-Pack Library...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Farewell Class: Onward and Outward!
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Class Eleven: Catalog
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Class Ten: The Beginning
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Class Eight: Politics
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Class Nine: Title and Revisions
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
Every Atom: Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" - Class Seven: Science
This class video was originally featured in EVERY ATOM: WALT WHITMAN'S "SONG OF MYSELF," a Massive Open Online Course offered by the IWP in Spring 2014.
This MOOC has now concluded; its content is featured as a "MOOC-Pack" on the IWP's Distance Learning...
The Legend in My Heart 我心传唱的诗歌
This documentary follows four renowned American artists—two writers, a choreographer, and a composer—as they travel to Guangzhou, China, to engage disabled and non-disabled populations by collaborating and creating together through a reading tour organized...
The Legend in My Heart 我心传唱的诗歌 (Official Trailer)
This documentary follows four renowned American artists—two writers, a choreographer, and a composer—as they travel to Guangzhou, China, to engage disabled and non-disabled populations by collaborating and creating together. The film ends with a rousing...
#Flashwrite: Teen Poetry MOOC | International Writing Program
On March 30, 2016, the International Writing Program will offer its first MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) designed specifically for emerging writers 13-19 years of age. Express your creative side with the University of Iowa creative writing community!...
Roua Sghaier on Between the Lines
Tunisian writer Roua Seghaier discusses her time in Iowa City as a Between the Lines participant in 2011.
On the Map 2015: Nael ELTOUKHY (Egypt)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Harris KHALIQUE (Pakistan)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Samuel KOLAWOLE (Nigeria)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Margarita MATEO PALMER (Cuba)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Birgül OĞUZ (Turkey)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Rochelle POTKAR (India)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Homeira QADERI (Afghanistan)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Antonio XERXENESKY (Brazil)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Karen VILLEDA (Mexico)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
On the Map 2015: Anas ATAKORA (Togo)
"On the Map" is a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the International Writing Program's fall residency. The series is produced by the IWP at the University of Iowa and is made possible by a grant from the Bureau...
Between the Lines 2015: Spotlight Series - Orwa
Between the Lines 2015's first session was Russia/Arabic, comprised of 10 Russians from 8 different cities, 14 Americans from 10 different states, 9 Arabic-speaking participants from 9 different countries/territories, as well as 2 Chinese, and 2 visiting...
Between the Lines: Spotlight Series - Jenan
Between the Lines 2015's first session was Russia/Arabic, comprised of 10 Russians from 8 different cities, 14 Americans from 10 different states, 9 Arabic-speaking participants from 9 different countries/territories, as well as 2 Chinese, and 2 visiting...
Between the Lines: Spotlight Series - Jana
Between the Lines 2015's first session was Russia/Arabic, comprised of 10 Russians from 8 different cities, 14 Americans from 10 different states, 9 Arabic-speaking participants from 9 different countries/territories, as well as 2 Chinese, and 2 visiting...
Between the Lines: Spotlight Series - Daria and Maria
Between the Lines 2015's first session was Russia/Arabic, comprised of 10 Russians from 8 different cities, 14 Americans from 10 different states, 9 Arabic-speaking participants from 9 different countries/territories, as well as 2 Chinese, and 2 visiting...
Frans Nadjira di Bentara Budaya Bali
Poetry and Historical Memory
Freedom to Express - International Writing Program
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News from Home
We sat down with five writers-in-residence to ask them about how they've been keeping up with news from back home. Interviewer, editor, and videographer: Andrea Chan Featuring: Raed Anis Al-Jishi, Kirill Azernyi, Matthew Cheng, El Jones, Nisah Haron For...