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Framed in gold 💛, rooted in black 🖤
ALT Old Capitol at sunset Photo by: Kassie Phanthouvong
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Postcards out of the University of Iowa vault 💌
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Fun Fact: Before creating Juno and Jennifer’s Body, Diablo Cody was a student at the University of Iowa. 🙌🎬
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Small Rain has won the PEN/Faulkner Award. I don’t know what to say, except that I’m very grateful to the judges, & very moved to see my book included alongside such excellent writers.
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Last week, the State Department cut funding for the International Writing Program, which brings writers from around the world to Iowa City. I wrote about why the IWP is precious, & how crucial it was for my education as a writer.
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🧵 Dear Friends: We write today with a difficult update. On Wednesday, Feb. 26, the International Writing Program (IWP) learned that its grants with the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, were being terminated.
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This is terrible!
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The end of an era...
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Shocking and heartbreaking
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The sun is setting on a great fall semester 🫶
ALT Photo of the Old Capitol Building during golden hour.
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Hugo, the reclining purple dog on our new cover, would like to request that all our contributors to this issue share photos of their author copies posed next to their own reclining animals. It's very important to Hugo (and Coven). Thank you.
🎨: Rebecca Clouse
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Grateful to have a poem in the latest issue of the @IowaReview. Gratitude to the editors and thankful to be in such terrific company with @KatNuernberger, @CLODellpoet, and so many others! ⭐️
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Congratulations to Jamel Brinkley, assistant professor in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, for winning the prestigious Maya Angelou Book Award for his incredible work, "Witness: Stories." 📚✨
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Grant Wood, famed Iowa artist and former UI Professor, is best known for American Gothic. A new UI research project seeks to catalog his works, strengthening his legacy with a comprehensive database.
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Tomorrow, November 9! Join PhD Art History student Abbey Minor and Art History alum Cory Gundlach, Curator of African Art, at the Stanley Museum for a panel conversation at 2:00pm. events.uiowa.edu/89912
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Thursday! 11/7 at 8 p.m., the Writers' Workshop presents a reading by visiting faculty members, Margaret Ross and Ada Zhang in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at Dey House/Glenn Schaeffer Library events.uiowa.edu/89926
