Sunday, 26 Feb 2012
Writing from the Margins: A Conversation
Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a father from South India. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination
Poetry Reading: Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was born in Chicago to a Filipina mother and a father from South India. Her recently published book of poetry, Lucky Fish, moves from India to the Philippines to New York state to capture a rich life, richly lived. She teaches creative writing and environmental literature at the State University of New York-Fredonia. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and Creative Imagination.
A Reading with Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell is the author of Winter's Bone, whose film adaptation was nominated for four Academy Awards. He has set most of his eight novels in the Missouri Ozarks, where he grew up and now lives. Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination
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
Thursday, 01 Mar 2012
College of Design Career Days Expo
Annual College of Design Career Expo offers students, professionals, design firms and alumni a unique opportunity to focus on careers in design and the arts. Cross-disciplinary panel discussions as well as discipline-specific sessions will be held in the College of Design inthe morning.