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Iowa Writes WENDY XU Opening Ceremony Open with something other than bad intentions -- Open with something revealing & patterned -- Open with lightning cleaving an oak tree. Disregard -- Open with a friend eating eggplant while -- Open with men saddling a donkey on a narrow road Open with the disillusionment of your life which *** Unapologetic Poem In the harbor the men trudge knee-deep |
About Iowa Writes Since 2006, Iowa Writes has featured the work of Iowa-identified writers (whether they have Iowa roots or live here now) and work published by Iowa journals and publishers on The Daily Palette. Iowa Writes features poetry, fiction, or nonfiction twice a week on the Palette. In November of 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Iowa City, Iowa, the world's third City of Literature, making the community part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Iowa City has joined Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia as UNESCO Cities of Literature. Find out more about submitting by contacting iowa-writes@uiowa.edu WENDY XU Wendy Xu was born in China; she was raised in Iowa before attending the University of Iowa for creative writing. She has studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the New York State Summer Writers' Institute where she was a 2010 Full Fellowship Winner in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in or are forthcoming from journals such as Literary Laundry, Milk Money Magazine, Coal Hill Review, Pismire, and Catch Up, while her first chapbook manuscript "Exhibit" was a finalist for the 2010 Autumn House Press Chapbook Contest. She currently coordinates the Younger American Poets Reading Series in Des Moines, IA, where she lives and writes. |
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