Poets & Writers Theater

“The first time I met him, I knew that I was in the presence of an extraordinary sensibility, an extraordinary mind, a profound soul.” University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty member James Galvin reflects on the work and friendship of his colleague James Alan McPherson in this video from 2011. McPherson passed away on July 26 at the age of seventy-two.

"The mind is a much more generous resource than we're in the habit of considering it to be." The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist speaks about accessing imagination through writing and her teaching experiences at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Robinson discusses her new book of essays, The Givenness of Things (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), in the November/December issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.

In this interview with James Tate, presented by the Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature organization, the poet speaks about his writing process, his work, and what it means to be a writer.

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, the nation's oldest postgraduate writing program, is celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. Jeffrey Brown delivered this recent report on PBS NewsHour.