What Is Your Quest? examines the future of electronic literature in a world where tablets and e-r...

Examines a constellation of post-9 11 novels that revolve around white middle-class male suburban...

Now back in print with a new essay, this classic of Iowa history focuses on the Old Order Amish M...

The Collaborative Artist's Book offers a rare glimpse into collaborations between poets and paint...

'For several decades following the end of the Civil War, the most popular sport in the United Sta...

Writing Through Writer's Block

On a summer evening in the 1990s, Anne learns that one of her husband's lovers is expecting, not ...

José Felipe Alvergue examines anger in American poetry, while reflecting on the permissible polic...

The Extremities!

Since her first collection, The Keep, Emily Wilson has forged a singular voice in American poetry...

Love, Dirt

City of Clans

Brightening Glance offers a stunningly self-revealing portrait of the struggles and sacrifices, j...

Flagrant, Self-Destructive Gestures tells the complete story of Johnson's fascinating life, his t...

Whitman's Southern Sojourn

Southern Stages

Theatre of Iraq Under Occupation, 2003-2011

What Mennonite Girls Are Good for

For This and Other Cruelties

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans--and most Americans--know little about...

'Description: In popular media and scholarship, the default fan is often assumed to be white, Ang...

Superheroes have a sprawling, action packed history that predates Superman by decades and even ce...

High Ground Coward

Examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's...

Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker's 'Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections 'collect...

Exploring a wide range of poetry from the nineteenth century to the present, Poetry after Cultura...

In 2013, Kurt Ullrich set out to chronicle the magic of the Iowa State Fair in words and photogra...

Asks how the many options for distributing books and newspapers shaped the way writers wrote and ...

Offering the first broadly comparative analysis of place-based labelling and marketing systems, K...

Part memoir of the writing life, part advice book, and part craft book; sometimes funny, sometime...

Unifying personal narrative and cultural commentary, Kendra Allen's collection grapples with the ...

Collected here are essays by Louise Erdrich, Michael Rosen, Gary Comstock, Mary Swander and Jane ...

ORIGINALLY published in the June 11, 1984, 'New Yorker, this lengthy essay is a sharp-edged inqui...

A collection of stories in which the adults can seem as hapless and helpless as the younger chara...

Whether the subject is the plants that grow there, the animals that live there, the rivers that r...

More than any other American before or since, Abraham Lincoln had a way with words that has shape...

Focuses on a coterie of under examined contemporary Asian American poets - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha,...

A lyrical coming-of-age memoir, Down from the Mountaintop chronicles a quest for belonging. Raise...

Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked strai...

For anyone who wants to go beyond the kitchen and backyard into the orchards, packing sheds, and ...

The Year of the Femme

The Homeless of 'Ironweed' is both a meditation on Kennedy's remarkable novel and a literary and ...

Iowa is the only state completely within the tallgrass prairie formation. Thanks to rich soil, ad...

Part of the regionalist movement that included Grant Wood, Paul Engle, Hamlin Garland, and Jay G....

In 1987 photographer Sandra Dyas moved to Iowa City and began documenting the area's vibrant live...

In this unusual and insightful collection, fourteen full-length literary interviews with innovati...

In this engrossing history of the Hawkeye State, Dorothy Schwieder brings her seasoned insight to...

Teacher's Guide for Iowa Past to Present: The People and the Prairie