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Yiyun Li, a fast-rising Chinese American writer and alumna of the Writers’ Workshop, takes a break from a reunion at her alma mater in Iowa City and reads outside. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
‘I’ve never been one who said poets should reach 10 million people. I want to make my poems accessible. I really do. But I’m not going to reach 10 million people. That doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with the country. People’s lives don’t include poetry. Maybe that makes it more special.’
‘I would not be myself without Iowa. It legitimized the act of writing. It put me in a community of writers.’
Alumni, students, and authors listen to featured panelists during the 75th anniversary reunion of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Marilyn Chin, author and alumni of the Iowa Writers Workshop, gestures as she reads a story during the Iowa Writers' Workshop 75th Anniversary Reunion at the University of Iowa in Iowa City on Saturday, June 11. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
‘I write slowly. I prick a finger and write in blood.'
Antoine Wilson, alumni of the Writers' Workshop, listens to the featured panelists during the reunion. The Writers' Workshop is the oldest graduate creative writing program in the country, and, since its founding in 1936, the program has been home to thousands of remarkable writers of fiction and poetry. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
Other alumni of the nation’s oldest graduate creative writing program gather for a reception at a local museum. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
ZZ Packer (l), a rising young writer and winner of a coveted MacArthur Foundation award, talks to Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, in a reading room at the workshop’s home at the University of Iowa. Tony Avelar/The Christian Science Monitor
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Saudi woman scales Everest with group of 64 climbers Saturday. Raha Moharrak, a 25-year old graphic designer, is the first Saudi woman to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Mountaineering officials say 64 climbers, including a Saudi Arabian woman, have successfully scaled Mount Everest from Nepal's side of the mountain.
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