Meaningful Work: The Writer as Citizen

Speaker:

Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass

30 Jan 2010

3:30 PM

Sun Room, Memorial Union

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Join symposium keynotes Terry Tempest Williams and Rick Bass in a conversation about the responsibility of writers in an ever-changing and imperiled environmental landscape. Terry Tempest Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge. Her most recent book is Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Rick Bass is the author of twenty books, including the autobiographical Why I Came West and the short story collection The Lives of Rocks. He lives in the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, where he has been active in protecting the land from roads and logging. The discussion will be moderated by Dean Bakopoulos, an assistant professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness, and the Creative Imagination Symposium.

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[b]View the complete schedule of symposium events:[/b] [url= http://engl.iastate.edu/programs/creative_writing/mfa/visiting-writers-series/wildness2010.html]Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World[/url] ---- This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.