Episode 107: Gratitude for Time - Poetry and Moments of Thanks - Zach Savich

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Episode 107: Gratitude for Time - Poetry and Moments of Thanks - Zach Savich

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Jul 26, 2018

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Jul 26, 2018

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The Writing University podcast features recordings of illuminative craft talks from the renown writers, novelists, poets, and essayists who present at the Eleventh Hour Lecture Series during the University of Iowa's Iowa Summer Writing Festival.

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Jim Heynan: “Same Content/Different Form”: In this podcast, recorded on 6/19/07 at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival Elevenses novelist and poet Jim Heynen discusses the relationship between content and form. Heynen advises writers to revisit thematic "obsessions" and to attempt "re-exploring the by The Writing University Podcast
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Christine Hemp on Writing About Happiness: In her presentation, "Yikes! Elysium: Writing About Happiness," Christine Hemp tackles what she describes as a necessary tension between "sunlight" and "the underworld" in fiction and nonfiction writing. Hemp examines how mundane objects such as puzzle p by The Writing University Podcast
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Christine Hemp—Yikes: A Deadline! Limitation as Liberation by The Writing University Podcast
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Episode 107: Gratitude for Time - Poetry and Moments of Thanks - Zach Savich

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