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POETRY-FRIENDLY BOOKSTORES |
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Prairie Lights Bookstore
15 South Dubuque Street
Iowa City, IA
(319) 337-2681
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LITERARY MAP |
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Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts: Lory Nels Johnson, Department of Education, Grimes State Office Building, Des Moines, IA 50319-0146.
A Periodic Table of Literature Poster is available from Jason Alberty, Washington High School, 2205 Forest Drive, Cedar Rapids, IA 52403, jalberty@ia.com ($7.00 including shipping and handling).
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Poet Laureate |
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Robert Dana
More information on this state's laureateship |
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Featured Poets |
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Amy Clampitt
Born and raised in New Providence, Iowa, Amy Clampitt's first published poem appeared in The New Yorker when she was 58 years old. In the next fifteen years she published six books of poems. |
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James Galvin
James Galvin received his M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and serves on its permanent faculty. The author of several collections of poetry, including his Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize winning Collected Poems, he lives in Iowa City. |
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Donald Justice
Donald Justice, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his Collected Poems and the Lamont Poetry Selection for The Summer Anniversaries lived in Iowa City, Iowa, until his death in 2004. |
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Other Iowa Poets
Marvin Bell
Mona Van Duyn
David Young
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Literary journals & small presses |
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The Iowa Review
One of the best-known and most highly respected literary reviews in
the country, the Iowa Review has been publishing continuously for 32 years.
Loess Hills Press
Publishes Iowa Poets. Contact Loess Hills Press at 3900 Sulvian Way, Sioux City, IA 51104.
The North American Review
The North American Review is the oldest literary magazine in America
(founded in 1815) and one of the most respected. The editors publish high-quality poetry, fiction, and nonfiction on any subject, but are especially interested in work that addresses contemporary North American concerns and issues, particularly with the environment, gender, race, ethnicity, and class.
The University of Iowa Press
Like the historic stone building, home of the University of Iowa press, from which this series draws its name, the Kuhl House Poets combine the best of dedicated craft and contemporary vision. This provocative new series will reawaken readers to a fresh consideration of the possibilities of language and feeling by publishing formally and verbally inventive work that takes its own path outside established routes of either traditional or experimental poetry. |
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Readings series, conferences & literary festivals |
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Iowa Summer Writing Festival
Sponsored by the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Iowa, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival includes 139 non-credit workshops held during one-week and weekend sessions in June and July. The workshops are open to writers 18 and over and the only requirement is the desire to write.
"Voices from the Prairie"
On Saturday, February 10, 2001, poet and farmer Michael Carey of
Farragut in Southwest Iowa began to host a weekly sampling of poetry taken from the state's fertile literary soil. The program, called "Voices from the Prairie," compliments the yearly Iowa writers' celebration, which Humanities Iowa inaugurated under the same name in September of 2000, and introduces the listening audience to the sentiments of some of Iowa's great writers as captured in poetry. |
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Visitors from Iowa Enjoy ... |
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Most Popular Poems
1. We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
We real cool. We...
2. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers...
3. Do not go gentle into that good night
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night...
4. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master...
5. Sick
by Shel Silverstein
"I cannot go to school today"...
6. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why (Sonnet XLIII)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why...
7. Dreams
by Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams...
8. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
I have eaten / the plums...
9. The Unknown Citizen
by W. H. Auden
He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be...
10. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
I, too, sing America...
(Popularity based on Poets.org traffic data.) |
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Poems about Iowa |
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Iowa
by Robbie Klein
It never completely gets dark on those back roads...
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Writing programs & colonies |
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The Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa
The Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City was the first creative writing degree program in a U. S. university. The workshop was made possible by the UI's decision early in the 20th century to grant academic thesis credit for creative work in the arts--another first in U. S. higher education. The Writers' Workshop has served as the blueprint for most of the other university-based creative writing programs, which have collectively transformed the terrain of American literary life. The program has produced a dozen winners of the Pulitzer Prize (most recently Jorie Graham in 1996), three recent U. S. Poet Laureates (Mark Strand, Mona Van Duyn and Rita Dove), and numerous winners of the National Book Award and other major literary honors. |
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