{"id":638,"date":"2009-10-09T10:22:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-09T10:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=638"},"modified":"2013-10-30T10:54:05","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T15:54:05","slug":"literary-world-to-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/10\/09\/literary-world-to-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The man who brought the literary world to Iowa&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-639 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/engle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"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\u00a0an audio recording from the first annual Paul Engle Literary Festival, which includes tributes to Engle from International\u00a0Writing Program Director Christopher Merrill and from novelist Arnost Lustig.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-640  aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/audio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/audio.jpg 537w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2009\/10\/audio-300x79.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/vwu\/id\/402\" target=\"_blank\">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\u00a0an audio recording from the first<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/10\/09\/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":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3637,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/638\/revisions\/3637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=638"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}