BY RUSTIN LARSON Poems from Guantanamo, a new book from the University of Iowa Press…
BY RUSTIN LARSON Have you ever sat down to lunch with someone and felt like…
BY STEVE SEMKEN The morel season starts with a thought one morning, the vision of…
In its inaugural year, The Iowa Source 2006 Poetry Contest more than surpassedour judges’ expectations.…
BY CHRISTINE SCHRUM Nebraskan Ted Kooser When I attended a reading by U.S. Poet Laureate…
BY GARY J. WHITEHEAD It’s impossible, isn’t it, to wakewhen it’s still dark and walk…
BY MEG HILL FITZ-RANDOLPH As one who reads poetry with about as much zeal as…
BY PAUL BROOKE In memory of Dale Wellman (Minden, Iowa) The fluorescent burn of fireflies,a…
BY DIANE FRANK You walk to the abandoned farmhouseknee deep in the stalksof last summer’s…
BY RUSTIN LARSON New Year’s Eve, curled in the swivelling chairin my parent’s TV room,…
BY JIM KARPEN Okay, here’s the most striking fact about my colleagueDiane Dumas, the Gadget…
BY JIM KARPEN In 1906 the British scientist Francis Galton, then in his 80sand still…
BY NINA BENJAMIN Pulling two million pounds of trash out of our nation’s waterways hasn’t…
AMES, Iowa — LEOPOLD CENTER for Sustainable Agriculture. Does it pay locally to help farmers…
With a lineup of spoken word eco-poetry, sumptuous organicmeals, and riveting discussions with nationally renowned…