Please click each heading for our 2019 Fall Residency events schedule, and check back in early fall of 2020 for the next round of Fall Residency events.
Fridays, 12-1 pm, Iowa City Public Library, Meeting Room A (123 S. Linn St., Iowa City)
Join the community conversation over free pizza! Fall Residents will discuss topics from "Writing on the Road" to "Language on the Fault Lines."
Fridays, 5-6 pm, Shambaugh House (430 N. Clinton St., Iowa City)
Iowa City’s best multi-lingual reading series with bagels. Voices from around the world fill historic Shambaugh House, IWP HQ.
Sundays, 4-5 pm, Prairie Lights Bookstore (15 S. Dubuque St., Iowa City)
The IWP and UI MFA writing programs take over the 2nd floor of Prairie Lights – grab a glass of wine or a fancy soda and settle in for an hour of highlights from three of the writers’ best works.
Sundays 7-9PM, FilmScene (Ped Mall location), 18 E. College St., Iowa City
A new free film every Sunday! Tour the far reaches of global cinema through films created or chosen by the IWP Fall Residents.
Free and open to the public, just like the rest of IWP’s events. Stay for a Q&A after the screening.
On 5/24/20, the US Embassy in Moscow celebrated Joseph Brodsky's 80th birthday with a collage of American poets reading his birthday poem "May 24, 1980" in the poet's self-translation. Chris Merrill, one of Brodsky's students, is among the readers.
Véronique TADJO (IWP ’06) discusses the renewed interest in publishing rights control among Francophone writers in Africa.
To mark Ireland’s corona-cancelled Leaving Cert graduation festivities, the poet Tom McCARTHY (IWP ’78) reads Paul Durcan’s elegy to side lines, “Sport.”
The lovely poem-a-day for May 14, 2020, “Journey,” is by the nomadic Lidija DIMKOVSKA (IWP ’05), translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh Štefanovska.
Over at Harvard Review, poet Mary jo Bang glosses her translations from the German of Matthias Gőritz (IWP ’03).
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