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Iowa City, IA, United States, 05/17/2008 - Iowa Poet Laureate Robert Dana reads the prose piece “The Visit” and the poem “Elegy For A Hometown” in the latest Boundoff.com short fiction podcast.
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Boundoff.com has released a new audio recording of short fiction read aloud. The latest episode, available as of May 15th at the Boundoff.com website, features the prose piece “The Visit” and the poem “Elegy For A Hometown”, both written and read by noted poet and writer Robert Dana.
Robert Dana's most recent books of poetry are The Morning of the Red Admirals (Anhinga Press, 2004) and Summer (Anhinga Press, 2000). He also edited A Community of Writers: Paul Engle and the Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa Press, 1999); and Against the Grain: Interviews With Maverick American Publishers (University of Iowa Press, 1986).
Dana graduated in 1954 from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop where he studied with Robert Lowell and John Berryman. He has served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at universities in the US and abroad; and after 40 years of teaching at Cornell College he retired in 1994 as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence. His work was awarded National Endowment fellowships in 1985 and 1993, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award in 1989, and a Pushcart Prize in 1996.
He is currently the Poet Laureate of Iowa.
This is the 28th monthly episode for Bound Off, which started publishing their MP3-based review of short stories read aloud in January 2006.
Music featured during the podcast is “Pajarito” by ambient musician Mark Rushton. The track is from Rushton’s album “Flow” and is available via Apple iTunes, AmazonMP3, and other online record stores.
Fans of the Bound Off podcast can listen a variety of ways: via the website boundoff.com, downloading the MP3 file, through Apple iTunes, using your favorite RSS feed aggregator, or by signing up for a monthly reminder of the latest episode via email.
All previous Bound Off episodes are archived at boundoff.com and can be accessed at any time.
Bound Off is always seeking original literary fiction for our upcoming podcasts. Writers can visit the website to check the submission guidelines.
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