{"id":1345,"date":"2009-10-12T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T14:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T19:25:30","slug":"the-man-who-brought-the-literary-world-to-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/12\/the-man-who-brought-the-literary-world-to-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image size-full wp-image-639\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/engle.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-639\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Frederick W. Kent Collection, University of Iowa Archives<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In 2000, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack declared Oct. 12 to be &#8220;Paul Engle Day,&#8221; in honor of the Iowa-born poet who served as head of the Writer&#8217;s Workshop from 1942 to 1977, helping to develop it from an obscure experimental program to an internationally renowned literary center. Featured here is an audio recording from the first annual Paul Engle Literary Festival, which includes tributes to Engle from International&nbsp;Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill and from novelist Arnost Lustig.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/audio.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-640\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/402\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Audio recording: First Annual Paul Engle Literary Festival, The University of Iowa, 2000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2000, Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack declared Oct. 12 to be &#8220;Paul Engle Day,&#8221; in honor of the Iowa-born poet who served as head of the Writer&#8217;s Workshop from 1942 to 1977, helping to develop it from an obscure experimental program to an internationally renowned literary center. Featured here is an audio recording from the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/2009\/10\/12\/the-man-who-brought-the-literary-world-to-iowa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8216;The man who brought the literary world to Iowa.&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6144,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/6144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}