Christopher Merrill

This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius

I am proud of this book review in today;s NY Times:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/b...

This Sunday! Cecilia Woloch and Friends Poetry on Zoom with Dan Murphy. Register via the link below.

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Opinion | One of the Founders’ Worst Fears Has Been Realized

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/o...

Thank you, Rob.

Thank you, my friend. It was a good long run.

Christopher Merrill stepping down after 25 years directing UI International Writing Program At the end of the year, Merrill will step down as IWP director and focus on writing and teaching as a member of the English Department faculty. Cate Dicharry, former executive associate director of op...

Christopher Merrill stepping down after 25 years directing UI International Writing Program
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Grigor Shashikyan (Grig) from Armenia reading a short story for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Roxana Crisologo Correa from Peru and Finland reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Warren C. Longmire from North Philadelphia reading new poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Yu Yuen Lan from Hong Kong reading an excerpt from her novel, Before I, for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Kazim Ali reading new poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Rajaa al Sanea from Saudi Arabia reading from her novel Girls of Riyadh for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY! · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this cou...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS!! NO COVER!! IOWA CITY!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

Agnes Chew from Singapore reading from an essay for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Audrey Cerchiara from the Hudson Valley reading her poetry for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Florencia del Campo from Argentina and Spain reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Tayi Tibble from Aoteatroa/New Zealand reading from a work in progress for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Fion Tse from Hong Kong reading an excerpt from her translation of a novel by Lo Yu for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Tomas Downey from Argentina reading a short story for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Andra Schwarz from Germany reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Roy Horovitz from Israel reading an essay for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Julia Musakovska from Ukraine reading her poems for @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Devanshi Khetrapal from India reading a short story for the @uiiwp.bsky.social at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Myle Yan Tay from Singapore reading from his new novel for @UIIWP at Prairie Lights Bookstore.

Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
What have we become?

Humanities Endowment Funds Trump’s Priorities After Ending Old Grants

What a disaster: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...

Opinion | What to Do When the President Acts Like a 5-Year-Old?

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

Look what just arrived in the mail!

Never Again Crazy Like Wei Hui ‘Wei Hui would have been the last person to acknowledge the story’s fictionality. She hoped readers would think of her protagonist as her.’

Delighted to read this conversation with Zhang Yueran (IWP 2016): granta.com/never-again-...

And here's what I wrote about it: