Tag: Iowa City
Iowa Summer Writing Festival – A Typical Day / 2014
I love to go to Iowa. Not just to glide past the flat lands of corn on I-80, or to roll along the miles of lightly forested hills on I-88, or, as a city dweller, to have the chance to drive my 2000 Beetle anywhere, or simply to savor a McD's cone alongside the Mississippi …
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Caring Lessons / Prairie Lights / Iowa City / 2014
Thanks to Jan Weissmiller, poet and co-owner of Prairie Lights, Caring Lessons: A Nursing Professor's Journey of Faith and Self will soon be shelved in this much-loved independent bookstore in Iowa City. When I attend the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, as I did last week, I hang out at Prairie Lights between classes and evenings. You'd …
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“What’s Love Got to Do with It? A Field Guide to the…
Sentence in Poetry and Prose" was the catchy title faculty member Juliet Patterson chose for the week session I just completed at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival. The festival, held on the University of Iowa's campus in Iowa City, is enjoying its twenty-sixth year. Starting in 2001, I've attended the festival seven times and taken …
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