Monday, 27 Feb 2012
Panel: Outliers and Environmental Literary Criticism
Three literary critics from the Iowa State Department of English will discuss the concept of the environmental imagination in literature. Participants include assistant professors Brianna Burke and Matthew Sivils and lecturer Jeremy Withers. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination.
Eco-Voices: Flyway Home Voices Reading
Writers from the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment read from their prize-winning work. Creative pieces will be published in a forthcoming issue of Flyway: a Journal of Writing and Environment.
On Travel Writing
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, including Memory Wall, which takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer's in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler and The New Yorker. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.
Lecture: Memory Wall
Anthony Doerr is the author of four books, The Shell Collector, About Grace, Four Seasons in Rome, and, most recently, Memory Wall, which takes place on four continents and addresses issues from Alzheimer's in South Africa to infertility in Wyoming to fishing for endangered sturgeon in Lithuania. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination