poetry

THe University of Iowa is home to the country's oldest literary translation program. Experts discuss why the program is renowned. And Kelsey Bigelow shares a lifetime of hurt and healing in her new poetry collection

An Iowa horticulturist will be featured at the Philadelphia Flower Show, the country's largest and longest running horticulture event.

Writers with different perspectives reflect on the Ukraine war nearly two years after Russia invaded the country.

Debra Marquart's new collection features lyric poetry from her career and 21 new poems. And the Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra is bringing classical music to students in rural Iowa.

Will Bortz used writing to get through a rocky childhood, spending time in and out of the foster system. Experiences from that time inspired much of his latest collection of poetry, Many Small Hungerings.

When people say that life is like a fairytale they’re usually forgetting about all the bad stuff, but Sabrina Orah Mark digs right into the darkness when using them as a tool in her memoir.

Robert Leonard is a keen observer of his fellow humans. He studies us from the perspective of a trained anthropologist and a seasoned journalist.

Ahead of his appearance at the Des Moines book festival, Sequoia Nagamatsu discusses his novel How High We Go in the Dark.

Published in 1986, Thomas and Beulah is a poetry collection that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, inspired by the lives of Rita Dove's grandparents.

An Iowa arts extravaganza: discussing DJ Savarese's new poetry collection, an initiative among educators to break stereotypes and a conversation with musician — and Iowan — Greg Brown.