Annual Report 2009 the IWP: Keeping Literature in Motion

Annual Report 2009 The IWP: Keeping Literature in Motion

The Fall Residency

Field Trips, Receptions & Cultural Events

2009 Residency Activities

2009 Residency Participants

Leaner than Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle

Open World

The Life of Discovery

Tunisia & Morocco Reading Tour

Souk Ukaz 2009 Writing in & Beyond the City

East Africa | Kenya Reading Tour

Between the Lines

A Celebration of Hualing Nieh Engle

Program Support

Honor Roll of Contributors to the International Writing Program

Now more than ever, the voyages we undertake at the IWP seek to increase cultural diplomacy and mutual {understanding among diverse peoples. } The IWP: Participants in this year’s IWP exchanges fulﬁlled Keeping Literature Tennessee Williams’ advice: “Make voyages. in Motion { Attempt them. There is nothing more.” } A letter from IWP Director Christopher Merrill

Dear Friends,

High summer in Iowa City: a time to reflect on writers engaged in new translations and collaborative early-career writers and artists from mainland China Now more than ever, the voyages we undertake at another extraordinary year for the International projects, and interacted with readers and writers at and the United States. Five writers from the U.S. the IWP seek to increase cultural diplomacy and Writing Program (IWP). In this, our 42nd year, the more than 100 public events around the country. As met six writers from Chinese minority and ethnic mutual understanding among diverse peoples. IWP’s cultural exchange efforts grew by leaps and featured presenters at Portland’s Wordstock literary communities for a two-way exchange of works and Through worldwide exchanges and dialogue, with a bounds, creating unparalleled opportunities for festival, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, and at ideas. In May, the delegations met in Dunhuang, digital framework at our fingertips, and in the wake writers from all over the world to interact with one the Pittsburgh Jazz/Poetry Concert, they treated a Silk Road town in Western China, and reunited of Iowa City’s UNESCO City of Literature designation, another and with members of the communities they audiences across the U.S. to performances and in Iowa City in October, on a series of bilingual we look forward to a bright future at the IWP. Your visited. In 2009, participants in the IWP exchanges readings of their own work, and collaborated with collaborative projects led by UK fiction writer Edward support has been vital to this project, and I invite you took part in a series of remarkable programs. Our the choreographers and dancers at the CityDance Carey (IWP ’02), Chinese novelist Hu Xuewen, and to review our program activities in this report and on writers led workshops in Kenya, traversed the Silk Ensemble in Washington D.C. They were invited to Chinese poet Xi Chuan (IWP ’02). the IWP website: http://iwp.uiowa.edu/. Road in Western China, and visited colleges and visit campuses from coast to coast. We are a little universities throughout the United States--all dazzled by the impact these writers made during The IWP’s overseas reading tours continue to reach while bringing writers and communities a bit closer their time in Iowa. out to writers and students no matter where they Sincerely, together. may live. In spring 2009, the IWP led a group of With much of the UI arts campus still under American writers to Morocco and Tunisia, a trip Whether connecting classrooms in Ireland and Iowa construction after the devastating flood of 2008, which included presentations and a book signing City through a digital video conference, teaching reminders of renewal and renovation were in no at the Tunis International Book Fair. Extending and creative writing workshops in Nairobi and the short supply. In July 2009, the second iteration expanding the successful New Symposium series of Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, or lecturing on of Between the Lines brought the dynamic dual- lectures, the Souk Ukaz (Arabic for “marketplace”) Global Humor at the Chicago Humanities Festival, language creative writing enrichment program project brought writers and thinkers together in Christopher Merrill participants in this year’s IWP exchanges fulfilled for Arabic-speaking teenagers into collaborative conversation in Morocco, an ancient crossroads Director Tennessee Williams’ advice: “Make voyages. contact with the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio. Twelve for intellectual and cultural exchange. And in mid- Attempt them. There is nothing more.” The IWP has students from the Middle East participated in writing summer, the IWP brought a separate delegation of set the course for literary exchange, and in 2009, the workshops and literature seminars in both English American authors to Kenya to lead creative writing wind was certainly at our backs. and Arabic, working alongside their American peers workshops with students and faculty at a number of to strengthen creative abilities and foster cross- Universities, including literary community members The fall residency continues to be, as one writer put cultural understanding. in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi, as well as with it this year, “a paradise for creative people.” In Somali refugees in Dadaab. At the refugee camp, 2009, 36 writers from 32 countries made inspiring Two-thousand-nine also saw the debut of the Life the American writers taught and interacted with more contributions to the literary community in Iowa City of Discovery project, a two-year pilot program than 200 Somali students. and elsewhere. Between August and November, the aiming to deepening cultural relations between The Fall Residency

August 29-November 17, 2009

In fall 2009, the IWP welcomed 36 writers from 32 in-residency YouTube film ever made, a music video welcomed the writers to the Midwest in a variety of countries to Iowa City for the 42nd session of the to accompany fellow IWP participant Fflur Dafydd’s special ways. The Council for International Visitors residency program. These writers formed deep song “Yr Ymylon.” The video featured cameos by to Iowa Cities (CIVIC) hosted a dinner honoring the cross-cultural bonds with each other and with the more than a dozen IWP participants and can be writers, and other dinners and barbeques hosted by many Americans they met during their three-month viewed on the IWP’s new YouTube Channel: http:// US Bank and University of Iowa faculty dominated stay. This year’s participants hailed from nations as www.youtube.com/iowaIWPIWP writers were also the fall’s evening schedule. The Anthology reading diverse as Austria, Jamaica, New Zealand, France, featured presenters at the 2009 Chicago Humanities series, a multi-genre fortnightly reading series, Burma, Uzbekistan, Australia, Venezuela, Croatia, Festival, the Pittsburgh JazzPoetry Festival, and at the featured IWP writers reading short extracts of their Jordan, Pakistan, Wales, Ireland, Egypt, Japan, and Wordstock Literary Festival in Portland, Oregon. work alongside graduate students in the Iowa Iraq. The effect of this confluence of languages and Writers’ Workshop and local writers. cultures was sometimes dizzying. As one participant Highlights of the Iowa portion of the residency put it, “there is something else at work here.” included: a one-on-one meeting with radio Attending square dances, performances at the local personality and bookworm Michael Silverblatt; the music venue The Mill, explorations of the Mississippi As a UNESCO-designated City of Literature, Iowa staging of “Global Express,” a dramatic performance River and its history, and interactions with the Amish City is home to a unique community of readers, featuring short plays written by six IWP writers-in- communities Kalona and the Amana Colonies writers, artists, and students. Participants in the residence; the panel “International Women Writers rounded out a residency that may best be distilled IWP fall residency soon found themselves joining Roundtable,” hosted by the Women’s Resource by the words of Filipino writer and director Vicente this ready-made family, participating in activities Action Center at the University of Iowa, featuring Groyon: organized by the IWP and other UI writing units, four of our writers; the live broadcast of writer including the Writers’ Workshop and the Nonfiction interviews on the radio programs Artists in Action, Writing Program. These activities—readings, panels, At the Moment, and The Exchange; and a series “The educational value of simply coming into close talks, and presentations—added up to dozens of of presentations at UI’s Senior College. Alongside contact with other writers and learning through them public events held at venues all over Iowa City. weekly programming staples such as the Prairie about other literatures, other ways of seeing and The residency also afforded opportunities for the Lights Reading Series, the Shambaugh House writing, other ways of living and thinking, while at the writers to attend readings and performances by Reading Series, Iowa City Public Library Lecture same time recognizing the many other things that cut distinguished visiting authors like Mark Strand, John Series, IWP writers visited classrooms across campus. across cultures to a shared humanity…my experience McPhee, Robert Dana, and Eavan Boland (IWP ’79). Collaborative translation projects through IWP’s of the IWP has been one of burgeoning respect, International Translation Workshop course, and understanding, and appreciation for the overload of Our writers’ influence extended far beyond Iowa. literary presentations in International Literature perspectives that are shared daily.” IWP writers took part in literary activities, festivals, Today, deepened the interactions between writers at { } performances, and collaborations in 29 cities across the IWP and the local and university communities. 17 states. One IWP participant, Pakistani prose writer and director Azeem Sajjad, directed the first The residents of Iowa City and the University of Iowa 9.27 10.23 – 10.24 Reception at the home of UI Professor Anna Barker Performance of Leaner Than Light

9.28 10.24 1 on 1 with radio personality and book reviewer Performance of Global Express Michael Silverblatt Field Trips, 10.25 9.29 17th Annual Harvest Dinner at Dane Farm Receptions & John McPhee and Michael Silverblatt reading 10.29 Cultural Events 9.29 – 10.3 Reading by Er Tai Gao Group trips to San Francisco, New Orleans, and the Mountain West 10.30 “Images of America” panel 10.3-10.11 Party hosted by UI Journalism Professor Mike Judge Delegation to Wordstock literary festival, Portland, OR 10.31 Halloween party hosted by UI Spanish Creative 10.9 Writing Program Director Ana Merino “1989 – 2009” panel 11.2 8.29 9.12 10.12 MFA Translation student reading Residency Begins Open World Reception Poetry Reading by Eavan Boland 11.6 – 11.8 8.30 9.15 10.13 Group Trip to Chicago Nature Hike at Redbird Farms Presentation by Stanley Foundation President Vlad Special Lecture and Q&A Session with Eavan Boland Sambaiew Life of Discovery delegations arrive in Iowa City 11.7 8.31 Open World reading Chicago Humanities Festival Panel, “Global Humor in IWP Orientation 10.14 the Digital Age” Opening Party at Christopher Merrill’s home 9.16 Live Web Chat with Eavan Boland Farewell Reception for Open World 11.10 9.4 “Lost Origins of the Essay” reading at Prairie Lights 10.15 Closing Party Interview on KRUI’s “The Exchange” program Bookstore Digital Video Conference with Eavan Boland “Literature of Desire” panel at Iowa City Public Special Lecture on “Untimeliness in Ge Fei’s Fiction” 11.11 – 11.14 Library (ICPL) 9.18 Delegation departs for Viterbo University Group Trip to Washington DC “What’s in a Name?” Panel 9.5 10.16 11.14 – 11.17 Pizza Party at Christopher Merrill’s home 9.19 “Questions of Travel” panel Group Trip to New York City Trip to Effigy Mounds,IA 9.7 10.20 11.17 Labor Day trip to Lake Macbride and Wilson’s 9.20 US Bank Reception Departure/End of Residency Orchard C.A.P.S Reception for Asian IWP Writers International Women Writers Roundtable Barbeque at UI Professor Aimee Carillo Rowe’s house Life of Discovery Art Installation opening 9.9 Open World Begins 9.21 10.21 Text and Context: “Publishing in the U.S.” Life of Discovery bilingual reading 9.10 Fflur Dafydd music video premier Delegation to Pittsburgh Jazz/Poetry Conference 9.25 Small Presses and World Literatures Roundtable “Translating, or Writing Across Languages” Panel 10.22 C.I.V.I.C. Dinner Life of Discovery departure 9.26 Reading by Poet Laureate Mark Strand 9.11 Trip to Kalona Reading by translator and poet Matvei Yankelevich at English Department Reception at the home of UI 10.23 Prairie Lights Bookstore “Teaching Writing” Panel Professors Denise Filios and Jon Wilcox “Why I Write What I Write and How I Write It” panel 10.4 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Miloš Djurdjeviü (Croatia) 10.12 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.4 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.16 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: “Literature of Desire” “Questions of Travel” 9.10 Participation in Pittsburgh Jazz-Poetry Festival 11.4 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of The Sun 9.15 Presentation, Cornell College Also Rises 2009 9.20 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 11.13 Collaboration with CityDance Ensemble in Residency Activities 10.5 Presentation, International Literature Today Washington D.C. Dung Kai Cheung (Hong Kong) Hanaa Hijazi (Saudi Arabia) 9.11 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.4 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series “Teaching Writing” 9.8 Presentation, Middle-East Literature Panel 9.21 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.9 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Caramel 10.16 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9. 11. Presentation in First Year Seminar 10.30 3-day trip to Harvard University 9.18 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 11.13 Collaboration with CityDance Ensemble in “What’s in a Name?” Washington D.C. 9.21 Presentation, International Literature Today Caption that indicates the value 9.22 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East of everything that is good about the Ge Fei (China) Literature Course Fall residency. 9.4 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: “Literature of Desire” Marius Ivaškeviþius (Lithuania) Yasser Abdel Latif (Egypt) 9.24 Presentation, Drake University 10.15 Special UI Lecture: “Untimeliness in Ge Fei’s 9.6 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 9.4 Interview, WSUI’s The Exchange 9.27 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Fiction” 9.28 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.8 Presentation, Middle-East Literature Panel 10.9 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.16 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.9 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.11 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: “1989 – 2009” 10.19 Presentation, International Literature Today “1989 – 2009” “Teaching Writing” 10.19 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.30 3-day trip to Harvard University 11.7 Presentation, Chicago Humanities Festival 9.13 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 10.20 Presentation, Women’s Resource and Action 11.8 Plays staged at Portland Stage Company 10.8 Presentation, Grinnell College Center Millicent Graham (Jamaica) 10.12 Presentation, International Literature Today 11.3 Presentation, Undergraduate Journalism 9.4 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Jiang Bin (China) 10.20 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East Course “Literature of Desire” 10.16 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Literature Course 9.27 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore “Questions of Travel” 10.23 Presentation, University of Wisconsin- Osman Pius Conteh (Sierra Leone) 9.28 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.19 Presentation, International Literature Today Madison 9.28 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.6 Presentation, University of Iowa’s Senior 10.3 Participation in week-long Wordstock College Meena Kandasamy (India) Yahya Alabdallah (Jordan) Literature Festival (Portland, OR) 10.15 Presentation, Viterbo University 9.6 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 9.8 Presentation, Middle-East Literature Panel 10.19 Presentation, Scott Community College 10.20 Presentation, Women’s Resource and Action 9.10 Participation in Pittsburgh Jazz-Poetry Festival 9.16 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Divine 10.20 Presentation, University of Iowa’s Senior Center 9.18 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Intervention College “What’s in a Name?” 9.18 Presentation, First Year Seminar 10.23 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Violet Grigoryan (Armenia) 9.25 Dinner with UI’s Southeast Asia Studies 10.6 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East “Why I Write…” 10.9 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Program Literature Course 11.1 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore “1989 – 2009” 10.12 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.23 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 11.7 Presentation, Chicago Humanities Festival 10.30 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.13 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East 10.26 Presentation, International Literature Today 11.2 Presentation, International Literature Today Literature Course 10.29 Presentation, Coe College Fflur Dafydd (Wales/UK) 11.3 Interview for KRUI’s Artists in Action 10.15 Presentation, Platform for Public Scholars 9.9 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 10.20 Presentation, University of Iowa’s Senior Jan-Willem Anker (Netherlands) 9.16 Presentation, Undergraduate Creative Writing Vicente Garcia Groyon (Philippines) College 9.20 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Course 9.23 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Namets! 10.20 Presentation, Women’s Resource and Action 9.30 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Abel 9.16 Performance at The Mill 9.25 Presentation in First Year Seminar Center 10.5 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.21 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.25 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.31 Presentation, Indian Cultural Association 10.16 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.21 Musical Performance at Public Space 1, Iowa “Translation” (Ames, IA) “Questions of Travel” City 10.5 Presentation, International Literature Today 11.3 Reading, Oaknoll Retirement Home 9.25 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.18 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Kang Youngsook (South Korea) “Translation” 11.8 Plays staged at Portland Stage Company 9.21 Presentation, International Literature Today Maxine Case (South Africa) 10.3 Participation in week-long Wordstock 9.25 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9.4 Interview, WSUI’s The Exchange Literature Festival (Portland, OR) Han Bo (China) 10.9 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.15 Presentation, Cornell College 9.21 Trip to Beijing for production of new play “1989 – 2009” “What’s in a Name?” Azeem Sajjad (Pakistan) 10.9 Presentation, First Year Seminar 9.21 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.18 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.26 Presentation, International Literature Today Kim Do Eon (South Korea) 11.3 Reading, Oaknoll Retirement Home “What’s in a Name?” 11.13 Collaboration with CityDance Ensemble in 9.25 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9.25 Dinner with UI’s Southeast Asia Studies Washington D.C. Alice Pung (Australia) Program Kim Soom (South Korea) 9.4 Radio Interview, WSUI’s The Exchange 10.13 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East Lijia Zhang (China) 9.18 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9.4 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Literature Course 9.11 Travel to Conference in Beijing “Literature of Desire” 10.19 Presentation, Scott Community College 9.25 Interview, WSUI’s The Exchange Min Htet Maung (Myanmar) 10.4 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 10.21 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Ramchand 9.25 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.18 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.5 Presentation, International Literature Today Pakistani “Translation” 10.19 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.13 Presentation, Undergraduate Journalism 10.23 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9.28 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.23 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: course 10.26 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.3 Participation in week-long Wordstock “Why I Write…” 10.15 Presentation, Viterbo University 10.27 Presentation, UI’s Senior College Literature Festival (Portland, OR) 10.20 Presentation, Undergraduate Journalism 10.14 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Platform Efrat Mishori (Israel) Course Fedosy Santaella (Venezuela) 10.21 Interview for KRUI’s Artists in Action 9.18 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.21 Second Life Reading, Virtual Reading and 9.11 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.28 Presentation at UC-Irvine, Stanford University “What’s in a Name?” Panel Series “Teaching Writing” 11.1 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 10.11 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 10.28 Radio Interview for KRUI’s Artists in Action 9.16 Presentation, Texas Tech University 11.4 Presentation, Iowa City Foreign Relations 10.14 Performance at The Mill 11.7 Presentation, Chicago Humanities Festival 9.28 Presentation, International Literature Today Council 10.19 Presentation, International Literature Today 2.5. 2010 Live Discussion (on-line chat), Virtual 10.3 Participation in week-long Wordstock 11.13 Collaboration with CityDance Ensemble in 10.20 Presentation, Women’s Resource and Action Writing University website Literature Festival (Portland, OR) Washington D.C. Center 10.11 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 11.14 Presentation, Asian Writers Festival in New 10.21 Interview for KRUI’s Artists in Action Mabrouck Rachedi (France) 10.12 Presentation, Grinnell College York City 10.27 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East 9.8 Presentation, Middle-East Literature Panel 10.15 Presentation, Viterbo University Literature Course 9.11 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 11.13 Collaboration with CityDance Ensemble in “Teaching Writing” Siobhán Ní Shíthigh (Ireland) Washington D.C. 10.6 Presentation, UI’s Senior College 10.9 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.12 Presentation, Undergraduate French Course 10.13 Presentation, UI’s Senior College Soheil Najm (Iraq) 10.23 Presentation, University of Wisconsin- 10.23 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 9.4 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series Madison “Why I Write…” 9.8 Presentation, Middle-East Literature Panel 10.25 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 11.2 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.10 Participation in Pittsburgh Jazz-Poetry Festival 10.27 Presentation, Grinnell College 9.25 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.28 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Still Walking Salomat Vafo (Uzbekistan) “Translation” 11.2 Presentation, International Literature Today 9.4 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 10.3 Participation in week-long Wordstock 11.7 Presentation, Chicago Humanities Festival “Literature of Desire” Literature Festival (Portland, OR) 10.20 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East 10.13 Presentation, University of Iowa’s Senior Dragica RajüLü(Switzerland/Croatia) Literature Course College 9.11 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.26 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.19 Presentation, Scott Community College 9.28 Travel to Switzerland for conference 10.30 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 10.20 Presentation, Michigan State University 10.9 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 11.8 Plays staged at Portland Stage Company 10.26 Presentation, International Literature Today “1989 – 2009” 10.27 Presentation, Undergraduate Middle-East 10.12 Presentation, International Literature Today Andreas Weber (Austria) Literature Course 10.18 Presentations at the University of Utah and 10.9 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series Western Michigan University 10.23 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Kyoko Nakajima (Japan) 10.27 Presentation, Iowa State University “Why I Write…” 9.3 Presentation, Central College 10.28 Presentation, Grinnell College 10.28 Presentation, Grinnell College 10.16 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: 11.1 Presentation, German Heritage Society of “Questions of Travel” Mani Rao (India/Hong Kong) Bettendorf (IA) 10.25 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore 9.25 Dinner with UI’s Southeast Asia Studies 11.2 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.27 Presentation, UI’s Senior College Program 11.2 Presentation, International Literature Today 10.16 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Kathy White (New Zealand) “Questions of Travel” 9.11 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Hagar Peeters (The Netherlands) 10.18 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore “Teaching Writing” 9.10 Reading, C.I.V.I.C. dinner 10.31 Presentation, Indian Cultural Association 9.11 Reading, Shambaugh House Reading Series 9.13 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore (Ames, IA) 10.7 IWP Cinemathèque Screening of Poisoning 9.18 Presentation, Iowa City Public Library Panel: Paradise Pro Helvetia, and other sources Jiang Bin (China) Translator Mani Rao (India/Hong Kong) Independently Funded Poet Independently Funded Meena Kandasamy (India) 2009 Poet, Essayist, Fiction Writer Azeem Sajjad (Pakistan) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Director, Scriptwriter Residency Department of State U.S. Consulate in Peshawar Participants Kang Youngsook (South Korea) Fedosy Santaella (Venezuela) Fiction Writer Fiction Writer Arts Council Korea Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Department of State Kim Do Eon (South Korea) Novelist, Essayist Siobhán Ní Shíthigh (Ireland) Korea Literature Translation Institute Poet U.S. Embassy in Dublin, Arts Council Ireland, and Kim Soom (South Korea) other sources Novelist, Essayist Independently Funded Salomat Vafo (Uzbekistan) Yasser Abdel Latif (Egypt) The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Novelist, Playwright, Screenwriter Novelist, Poet, Scriptwriter, Translator Min Htet Maung (Myanmar) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Ge Fei (China) Poet, Journalist, Translator Department of State Department of State Fiction Writer,Critic Independently Funded Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Andreas Weber (Austria) Yahya Alabdallah (Jordan) Department of State Efrat Mishori (Israel) Fiction Writer, Novelist, Filmmaker Filmmaker Poet, Essayist Max Kade Foundation Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Millicent Graham (Jamaica) Fulbright Foundation of Israel Department of State Poet Kathy White (New Zealand) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Soheil Najm (Iraq) Fiction Writer, Novelist Jan-Willem Anker (Netherlands) Department of State Poet Creative New Zealand Poet Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. U.S. Embassy in the Hague Violet Grigoryan (Armenia) Department of State Lijia Zhang (China) Poet, Essayist Nonfiction Writer, Essayist Maxine Case (South Africa) U.S. Embassy in Yerevan, and the William B. Quarton Kyoko Nakajima (Japan) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Fiction Writer, Novelist Foundation Novelist, Fiction Writer Department of State Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Center for Asian and Pacific Studies at the University Department of State Vicente Garcia Groyon (Philippines) of Iowa 2009 Open World Activities Fiction Writer, Essayist, Filmmaker (Organized by Writer) Osman Pius Conteh (Sierra Leone) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Hagar Peeters (Netherlands) Novelist Department of State Poet, Nonfiction Writer Maxim Amelin (Russia) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. 9.14 Presentation, International Literature Today Department of State Han Bo (China) Department of State 9.15 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Poet, Playwright Fflur Dafydd (Wales/UK) U.S. Embassy in Beijing Alice Pung (Australia) Ekaterina Boyarskikh (Russia) Novelist, Fiction Writer, Critic Fiction Writer, Playwright, Nonfiction Writer 9.14 Presentation, International Literature Today British Arts Council Hanaa Hijazi (Saudi Arabia) Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. 9.15 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Short Story Writer, Columnist Department of State Miloš Djurdjeviü (Croatia) William B. Quarton Foundation Natalia Klyuchareva (Russia) Poet, Essayist, Translator Mabrouck Rachedi (France) 9.14 Presentation, International Literature Today Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Marius Ivaškeviþius (Lithuania) Novelist, Essayist 9.15 Reading, Prairie Lights Bookstore Department of State Fiction Writer, Playwright, Screenwriter U.S. Embassy in Paris Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Dung Kai Cheung (Hong Kong) Department of State Dragica RajüLü(Switzerland) Novelist, Literary Critic Poet, Journalist, Playwright Leaner than Open World Light: 12 Frames of September 9-19, 2009 Paul Engle

October 12, 2008 | October 23-24, 2009

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It has been argued that no one affected the and dramaturg Lisa DiFranza (a frequent partner of For the fifth consecutive year, the IWP hosted a direction of American literature in the twentieth the IWP)—staged a preliminary reading on October delegation of Russian writers sponsored by the century more than former Writers’ Workshop 12, 2008, the 100th anniversary, in the Old Capitol Open World Cultural Leaders Program. Three director and International Writing Program co- Senate Chambers. writers, accompanied by a facilitator and an founder Paul Engle. The Cedar Rapids native interpreter, spent one week in Iowa City and attended Coe College and then the University of A year later, expanded and rewritten, “Leaner than two days in Chicago. During their time in Iowa Iowa, where he was one of the first students in Light: 12 Frames of Paul Engle” debuted to a full City, they read and discussed their work at both the country’s history to receive a graduate degree house on October 23 and 24, 2009, in Theatre B the International Literature Today class and the for original poetry—his collection Worn Earth, at the UI Theatre Building. The play is divided into Translation Workshop. At the Translation Workshop, which won, in 1932, the prestigious Yale Series of twelve sections that follow Paul Engle’s life from his translator and Ugly Duckling Presse publisher Matvei Younger Poets award. After a Rhodes Scholarship, childhood as the son of a Cedar Rapids horsetrader Yankelevich, who translated poems by two of the he returned to Iowa City to lead the fledgling to his death at Chicago O’Hare Airport, on his way participants, shared his process. The delegates also Writers’ Workshop to the forefront of creative- to Poland to receive a lifetime literary achievement participated in a bilingual reading at Prairie Lights writing teaching in the country, establishing a model award. His poetry, his influence on American letters Books, and visited local sights including Kalona, for graduate programs that has been imitated and the teaching of writing, and his wife Hualing Iowa (home to the largest Amish settlement west at hundreds of institutions nationally and now all feature prominently. Because the play was of the Mississippi River) and Mount Vernon, Iowa. internationally. designed with an eye to touring it around the state, In Chicago, they were guests of the University of the staging features overhead video interviews with Illinois at Chicago, where they read and discussed After retiring from the Workshop, he and his wife writers and poets who studied under Engle, audio of their work with Russian-language students. They also Hualing Nieh Engle founded the International Engle reciting his own poetry, and only a few props. were featured readers at a literary salon attended by Writing Program in 1967, which continues to give members of the local Russian-speaking community. writers from around the world time and space to The International Writing Program, the UI Theatre The delegates rounded out their time in Chicago create new work. Department, and Humanities Iowa sought to create with visits to the Art Institute of Chicago and Lake a piece of theater that would help the people of Michigan, among other places. In honor of the 100th anniversary of Paul Engle’s Iowa remember one of the state’s most important birth, the International Writing Program and the UI sons, and we’re proud to say that “Leaner than Participants: Theatre Department commissioned a one-act play Light” is not only a fine testament to Paul Engle’s Maxim Amelin, poet, Moscow about his life and work. Underwritten by a generous legacy, but a means to advance that legacy, too. Ekaterina Boyarskikh, poet, prose writer, Irkutsk grant from Humanities Iowa, the play was scheduled Natalia Klyuchareva, prose writer, poet, Moscow to debut in fall 2008, but the summer flooding that Vladimir Andreyev, facilitator, Tula year delayed crucial research at the Coe College and University of Iowa libraries. Undaunted, a team of artists—the UI Theatre Department’s Art Borrecca, playwright Lisa Schlesinger (a graduate of both the Writers’ Workshop and the Playwright’s Workshop), The Life of This journey itself, a poem Is claimed by many flags of love Discovery Fluttering, facing the wind, for you, every one of you May 2009 China | October 2009 Iowa City {---“Gift”, by Nie Le, Gelao ethnic group. }

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Transformation through travel has been a favorite exchange in preparation or a feature-length workshop with IWP director, the poet and translator film featuring among other issues also a sample of topic for many writers. For the Life of Discovery documentary film that is currently in production. Christopher Merrill, several fiction-writing workshops exercises and responses by various authors that participants, such literary excursions were a self- After the first phase in May, each of the delegates led respectively by IWP Associate Director Hugh could be deployed n in creative writing practices changing voyage which endowed them with an submitted a piece of original writing glossing the Ferrer and two distinguished members of the fall in China and the US. The program also anticipates encompassing experience of the world as well as journey from their personal perspectives. These residency Ge Fei from China and and Dung Kai that communication among delegates will continue, a deeper understanding of their home cultures. texts were then translated into English and Chinese Cheung from Hong Kong. The writers reflected whether through web conferences or other Launched by the IWP in cooperation with the respectively, with the goal of transcending the on classigal literary-tropes such as landscape, collaborative activities. Chinese Writers’ Association, the Life of Discovery language barrier and addressing a transnational subjectivity, and personal style in writing. Artist Participants in the 2009 session of Life of Discovery (LOD) exchange brought together writers and artists readership. Anne Wilson presented two art installations, one were: from the United States and from the minority ethnic The second phase (October 11-25) brought eight of which was a work made with materials she had communities in the western regions of mainland of the Chinese delegates to the United States. The brought from China, and which were presented with USA: China. The first phase, in May 2009, comprised program began with a three-day session in Chicago, a Chinese & English text-collage containing Google- Edward Carey (Fiction Writer, Senior Artist, Britain) visits to the cities of Dunhuang, Xi’an, and Beijing. followed by further literary activities in Iowa City, generated translations of Whitman’s poem, “I Hear Leslie Jamison (Fiction Writer) Delegates of both countries explored a variety of Washington, D.C. and New York. As if to overcome America Singing.” David Chan (Fiction Writer) cultural and historical sites, including the Mogao his jetlag, Tibetan poet Cao Youyun stayed up well Steve Delahoyde (Filmmaker) Caves, Emperor Qin’s Terracotta Army in Xi’An, and into the night, writing about 20 poems in his first few The second half of this exchange developed the Kiki Petrosino (Poet) the postmodern 798 Art District in Beijing. These days in Iowa city. They the unforgettable moments professional affiliations among the writers and Shin Yu Pai (Poet, And Creative Artist) diverse cultural locales put the writers in contact of his sojourn, ranging from a group trip to Effigy a number of other literary and creative units on Anne Wilson (Sculptor) with rich geographical and cultural landscapes, and Mounds to studying the antique collections of an campus, such as the Iowa Writing Workshop, the breathed life into new writings produced during the Amish settlement. And Cao’s literary energy was not Center for the Book, and the Translation workshop. China: proceedings. unique among the Chinese delegates. Soon after On October 21, the program concluded with a XI Chuan (poet, senior artist) their arrival the Chinese delegates attended an Art bilingual reading of at Shambaugh House. In the CAO Youyun (Tibetan ethnicity, poet) It was in their collaborative projects that the and Politics Workshop at the University of Chicago, audience were the emerita Professor Hualing Engle, GUO Wenbin (Han nationality, fiction writer) participants could display the full palette of of where a provocative dialogue with students and other faculty and students. HU Xuewen (Han nationality, fiction writer) their artistic skills and practices. In Dunhuang, scholars unfolded on matters concerning writing JIN Renshun (Korean ethnicity, fiction writer) senior artists Edward Carey, Hu Xuewen, and Xi and ethnicity. In Iowa City, a translation workshop Through collaboration and interactive experiments, LI Hui (Yi ethnicity, poet) Chuan huddled together to develop the most led by IWP editor Nataša Durovicová opened the LOD program produced distinct and unique NIE le (Gelao ethnicity, poet) fertile creative writing activities and to strengthen up conversations on humor, sexuality, narrative results. The poetry and prose penned in its course WANG Hua (Wa ethnicity, fiction writer) cooperation among the delegates across languages. perspective, and the many complexities of the have been translated into Chinese and English. A WANG Hong (Han nationality, filmmaker) Fulbright scholar Anne Wilson, who joined the translation process itself. The program moved special bilingual issue of a national journal, Yellow WU Xinwei (CWA coordinator) delegation as a sculptor and visual artist, employed through an array of styles and techniques, including River Literature, appeared in China; a number of the Buddhist image of the lotus flower in a two- many experimental creative writing exercises such the texts will also be published in IWP’s online part art installation inspired by the group’s travels as a theatrical “exquisite corpse” game led by journal 91st Meridian. Future projects include a in China. Filmmaker Steve Delahoyde worked playwright and fiction writer Tang Ying, a poetry printed booklet, a website, and an accompanying vigorously to capture memorable images of the Tunisia & Morocco Reading Tour

Tunis, between April 24th and April 27th

Morocco, between May 3rd and May 6th, following the 2009 Souk Ukaz.

On the first of two IWP summer reading tours, four 2009 Tunis Reading and Lecture Tour Participants: Sarajevo Video Conference Participants: notable American writers traveled to cities in Tunisia and Morocco, an extension of programming that Katie Ford Adisa Bašiü in previous years toured the Mediterranean and (poet, professor at Franklin and Marshall College; (poet, journalist; Bosnia and Herzegovina) countries across the Middle East, funded by a grant USA) from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. Ahmed Buriü The IWP group broke literary ground at each of Barbara Ras (journalist, editor, translator, short fiction writer and the stops , breking bread with local aficionados of (poet, director of Trinity University Press; USA) poet; Bosnia and Herzegovina). letters and culture. The group was, for instance, the first ever English speaking delegation to read at the Mustapha Tlili Ferida Durakoviü Tunis International Book Fair, an event followed by (fiction writer, director of Center for Dialogues; USA) (poet, Secretary of the PEN center of Bosnia- book-signing and encounters with fairgoers at the Herzegovina; Bosnia and Herzegovina) American table. Other events included interactions Eliot Weinberger with local press; a visit with a Tunisian publisher; (poet, translator, critic; USA) Director Haris Pašoviü a reception at the Ambassador’s residence; and (director; professor at the Performing Arts Academy several readings and lively conversations with Christopher Merrill in Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina) large groups of students of English and Translation (poet, director of the International Writing Program; Studies from four regional universities. Between USA) Zvonimir Radeljkoviü professional meetings, the writers toured the (scholar, translator; professor at the University of Tunisian capital, the Roman excavations at Carthage, Sarajevo; Bosnia and Herzegovina) and the Great Kairouan Mosque.

The writers also met virtually with a group of colleagues from Sarajevo for a digital video conference (DVC). The topic of this DVC extended the theme of “Writing in and Beyond the City,” a subject of prime importance to the Bosnian writers, all of whom had lived through the longest urban siege in modern history (1992-1996). The reading tour thus concluded framed by impressions of two extremes that may be the fate of any city: the destruction and resurrection of Sarajevo juxtaposed with the arduously preserved “Sacred City of Fes.” Souk Ukaz 2009 Writing in & Beyond the City April 28 -- May 2, 2009

Has the inherent bias of writers favoring dense State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. urban forms meant that literature has increasingly left behind the peripheral and sparsely populated For a look inside the discussions of the Souk Ukaz, regions, perhaps even nature itself? With the papers can be found online at: http://iwp.uiowa. populations tipping in favor of cities over rural areas edu/projects/SoukUkaz/2009Morocco.html for the first time in recorded history, how has, and how should literature respond? Souk Ukaz Participants: This was the question posed to the participants Krzysztof Czyzewski (poet, essayist; Poland) gathered for the IWP’s 2010 symposium “Souk Katie Ford (poet; USA) Ukaz,” Arabic for “market of ideas.” As an Carlos Gamerro (fiction writer, translator; Argentina) extension to the successful “New Symposium,” Michal Hvorecký (fiction writer, playwright; Slovakia) which met for three years on the island of Paros Roseanne Saad Khalaf (fiction writer, editor; (Greece), this year’s exchange was set for the first Lebanon) time in the Moroccan cities of Fes, a UNESCO Gürgenç Korkmazel (poet, translator; editor; Cyprus) world heritage city, and Africa’s largest port city, Barbara Ras (poet; USA). Casablanca. Alberto Ruy-Sánchez (fiction writer, poet, essayist; Mexico) The participants gathered at this marketplace Faouzi Skali (essayist; Morocco) included American, international, and local writers Mustapha Tlili (fiction writer; Tunisia/USA) – in all, 14 writers representing Argentina, Cyprus, Anastassis Vistonitis (poet, essayist, fiction writer; Greece, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Greece) Slovakia, Tunisia, and the United States. In no short Eliot Weinberger (essayist, translator; USA) supply of experiences and material for inspiration, Kyoko Yoshida (fiction writer, translator; Japan) participants alternated between small-group discussions and excursions in and around these two vastly different Moroccan cities. Walking tours, cultural introductions, and first-hand participation in Moroccan life provided a solid ground for debates about literature’s ability to confront, understand and represent today’s vast and complex urban formations. .

The Souk Ukaz was organized by the IWP, and funded through a grant from the U.S. Department of East Africa | Kenya Unlike any other occupation, to be a writer all you need is a pencil and a piece Reading Tour of paper. June 9th -- 18th, 2009 { --Tom Sleigh to the students }

In June, the IWP led a delegation of four American Dickinson and Walt Whitman to the delegates’ own writers on a reading tour of Kenya. Although the work. delegation stayed within the borders of Kenya itself, the tour served the large population of Somalians East Africa Reading Tour Participants living in the country, a circumstance which made this tour of one country feel more like two. Dana Johnson (ﬁction writer) Tom Sleigh (poet) Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Terese Svoboda (poet, novelist, ﬁction writer) the group met with students and faculty at the Eliot Weinberger (essayist, translator) University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University and Christopher Merrill (poet, essayist) the Aga Khan University; with Somali writers and editors in the Eastleigh district of Nairobi; and with community organizers in the city’s sprawling Kibera district. They then spent several days conducting writing workshops in three UNHCR Somali refugee camps in Dadaab.

Located on the Somali border, Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp with more than 275,000 people. The delegation toured the camp’s food distribution center, and the registration system , which sees 5,000 incoming refugees each month. In their 2 1/2 days in the camps, the IWP group held ﬁve creative writing workshops, working with nearly 200 students and 13 teachers. Honing in on the most effective prompts, the instructors structured these session so that students could write freely, on topics ranging from autobiographies, through a ‘best or worst day’ exercise, to writing about a dream. . For a sample of their stories, please go to http://iwp.uiowa.edu/reading_abroad/ kenya/2009kenyanarratives.html

The IWP also donated some 75 books to the camps, ranging from classic Dover Editions of Emily Between the A Celebration of Lines Hualing Nieh Engle July 5th -- 18th, 2009 October 2009 Iowa City, IA

This year’s session of Between the Lines may have In October of 2009, close to a hundred colleagues, exchange. In 1967, Paul and she co-founded the been our second, but it was the ﬁrst to take place in family members and friends from across the nation, International Writing Program (IWP) with the intent the environment for which it was originally designed. the UI and the Iowa City communities gathered to create connections among the world’s writers, so to celebrate the 85th birthday of IWP co-founder as to heighten understanding across borders as well With funding from the Bureau of Educational and Hualing Nieh Engle. Their presence and their as to provide an opportunity for international writers Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State, Participants: speeches offered a testament to Professor Engle’s to encounter the American approach to creative twelve students (ages 15-19) and four chaperones (all funded by the Bureau of Educational and lifetime accomplishments, literary achievements, and practices. Thanks to the vision and care of the from across the Middle East came to the University Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State) legendary open arms. Engles, sustained throughout by the US Department of Iowa campus to study creative writing (in both of State and the University of Iowa, during the IWP’s English and Arabic) and interact with their American Bana Aassy (student, Tel Aviv) Mrs. Engle was born Nieh Hualing in Hubei, China. 42 years of programming more than 1,200 writers peers through our partner program, the Iowa Young Ahmad Ezery (student, Tel Aviv) As a youth, she lived in the shadows of the Sino- from over 120 countries have shared in an ongoing Writers’ Studio. Unlike last year, where the students Nael Roby (student, Tel Aviv) Japanese and Chinese civil wars. In 1948, Hualing dialogue, friendships, and collaborations. Under were largely isolated from other young American Irene Ghattas (student, Jerusalem) graduated with a degree in English from the their guidance the IWP grew into a world-class writers, this group – representing Israel, Jordan, Majd Iwidat (student, Jerusalem) Western Languages Department of the National residency for literary artists. Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and Syria – Hussein Youneiss (student, Beirut) Central University. In late 1940s, following the worked, lived, and dined alongside them. Nadia El Malt (student, Beirut) totalitarian turn in the People’s Republic, she and With more than twenty volumes to her credit, Mrs. Yara Abou Fakher (student, Damascus) her family settled in Taiwan. There, she served as a Engle has been praised both in China and in the Some of the highlights of the program included Laura Abaza (student, Damascus) literary editor and editorial board member of the U.S. for the way her work draws strength from a literature salon in which the students discussed Zaid Al-Nassir (student, Amman) important cultural fortnightly Free China, until her two distinct literary traditions. The many honors their favorite Arabic-language authors and works, Bashar Al-Sawaftah (student, Amman) critical vision earned her years of house arrest. She and awards, both international and local, attest performances at two student talent shows, and trips Iya Ghassib (student, Amman) was also the ﬁrst faculty member to teach creative to the value placed on her effort. The countless to a local bowling alley and a movie theater to see Asma Abu Dahab (chaperone, Amman) writing in Chinese at Taipei’s two major universities, discussions and collaborations that her writing and the premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Soumer Daghastani (chaperone, Damascus) National Taiwan and Tung-hai. During this span of 15 her leadership have made possible form a legacy Prince. One mark of the success of this program Basima Takrouri (chaperone, Jerusalem) years, Nieh Hualing also published a novel, several that has shaped the world literature of our time. can be found in the student evaluations: The most Nadia Tellawi (chaperone, Amman) short story collections, translated American and common answer to the question “How can we make British literature into the Chinese, and met her future Between the Lines better for future participants?” husband Paul Engle, then director of the University was “Extend it to three weeks.” of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. In 1964 she accepted an invitation to attend the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she earned an MFA.

Over a half-century-long distinguished literary career divided across two continents, Nieh Hualing has worked with tenacity and grace to widen the crossroads of international writing and cultural Program Support The IWP can only continue its activities thanks to the continuing support of the University of Iowa, as well as federal, state, community and individual funding sources. We would like to acknowledge our profound debt to the individuals, entities and {institutions listed below. }

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