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News and Announcements
Stecopoulos profiles Iowa City for Public Books
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
English Department support of IWP in The Daily Iowan
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Melissa Febos's Dry Season in Publishers Weekly
Friday, April 11, 2025
Thomas Mira y Lopez and Kaveh Akbar awarded Discovery and Innovation Awards by the Office of the Vice President for Research
Monday, March 31, 2025
Once annually, the Office of the Vice President for Research reviews nominations for nine major awards that recognize faculty and staff excellence in research, scholarship, and creative activities. These awards, a part of the long-standing Discovery and Innovation Awards program, celebrate researchers and scholars who receive national recognition for forging new frontiers of discovery.
Kaveh Akbar in The Nation
Monday, March 31, 2025
Kaveh Akbar profiled in Iowa Now
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Kaveh Akbar, associate professor and director of the English and Creative Writing major at the University of Iowa, first drew acclaim for his poetry.
NWP MFA student Spencer Lane Jones featured in 5Q Interview
Monday, February 10, 2025
The Writing University conducts a series of interviews with writers while they are in Iowa City participating in the various University of Iowa writing programs. We sit down with authors to ask about their work, their process and their descriptions of home.
Nine English Department faculty and graduate students present their research at the Modern Language Association Convention
Monday, January 27, 2025
English department faculty and grad students attended the 2025 MLA Annual Convention in New Orleans.
Kaveh Akbar's poem "Elegy for a Name" in the New Yorker
Monday, December 30, 2024
Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! on the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2024
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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