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.

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ADRIENNE HO, TRANSLATING A POEM BY SULPICIA

Adrienne Ho received an MFA in literary translation at the University of Iowa in May 2006. Her work is forthcoming in Burnside Review, Circumference, Denver Quarterly, and Ninth Letter. Adrienne Ho writes that Sulpicia's poems are "the only extant female literary text from the Augustan period (1st century BCE) of ancient Rome." Several of Ms. Ho's Sulpicia translations were published in the Winter 2006 issue of 91st Meridian, the electronic journal of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program—an electronic forum to encourage the frank exchange of ideas.

The 91st Meridian