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Schramm and the Beginning of American Communication Theory: A History of Ideas. and in Stephen Wilbers' book The Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lived at 540 S Summit St and at 1110 E Court St in Iowa City

Bob Shacochis, MFA 1982 UI Writers' Workshop, taught 1985-88 UI Writers' Workshop. He received the Michener Award in 1983 for East in the Islands, and the National Book Award and the American Book Award while at UI. In 1983 Shacochis was voted Playboy's Best New Contributor. He was included in Best Short Stories 1983, and was Pushcart Press Outstanding Writer in 1983. 

W.D. Snodgrass, MFA 1955 UI Writers' Workshop. Snodgrass was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1960 for Heart's Needle -- considered a new direction for American poetry. In 1972 he received a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Other publications include The Fuehrer Bunker, Selected Poems, and Kinder Capers. A recent publication about Snodgrass is , Everything Human: On the Poetry of W.D. Snodgrss, ed Stephen Haven, Ford Brown & Co Publ, 1990, Volume 7, The American Poets Profile Series. 

William Stafford taught from 1948 until his retirment in 1980 at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon -- except for two years in the early 1950's when he received his Ph D at The University of Iowa. He received a 1962 National Book Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award for Travelling Through The Dark. " I really think he thinks that men are better than they are. " ( F. Keith Wahle quoting Donald Justice, Seems Like Old Times) Stafford continues to direct poetry workshops throughout the United States. 

George Starbuck, succeeded Paul Engle in 1967 as the third director of the UI Writers' Workshop. In early 1950's Starbuck, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were students of Robert Lowell's. Starbuck received a BA from U of Chicago in 1957, studied at Harvard, taught at SUNY/Buffalo, and was lecturer at Boston Center for Adult Education. In 1960 he received the Yale Younger Poets Award for "Bone Thoughts" and in 1961 he was awarded the Prix de Rome. In 1982 he received the James A Michener Series Abroad Award from the Academy of American Poets, and in that same year his book, The Argot Merchant of Disaster: Poems New and Selected, received the Nation's Lenore Marshall Prize. Other publications are "White Paper" (1966), and "Elegy in A Country Churchyard" (1975). When asked if he would install any specific innovations as Director of UI Writers' Workshop Starbuck replied," ... every new writer is an innovation." ( Dennis Ishibashi, Daily Iowan, 6-2-67)

Wallace Stegner, one of the first give students to receive a creative MFA from UI in 1932. His book, Beyond the Hundredth Meridan: John Wesley Powell and The Opening of the West, was chosen for inclusion in the White House Library. A proponent of "regionalism" he wrote " The Trail of the Hawkeye, Literature Where the Tall Corn Grows," (Saturday Review of Literature, 7-30-38,4 ). His most recent publication is Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner. Three of his full length works evolved from stories in this collection -- Recapitulation, The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Wold History. (Anne Tyler, NY Times Book Review, 3-18-1990)

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Schramm and the Beginning of American Communication Theory: A History of Ideas. and in Stephen Wilbers' book The Iowa Writers' Workshop. He lived at 540 S Summit St and at 1110 E Court St in Iowa City Bob Shacochis, MFA 1982 UI Writers' Workshop, taught 1985-88 UI Writers' Workshop. He received the Michener Award in 1983 for East in the Islands, and the National Book Award and the American Book Award while at UI. In 1983 Shacochis was voted Playboy's Best New Contributor. He was included in Best Short Stories 1983, and was Pushcart Press Outstanding Writer in 1983. W.D. Snodgrass, MFA 1955 UI Writers' Workshop. Snodgrass was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1960 for Heart's Needle -- considered a new direction for American poetry. In 1972 he received a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Other publications include The Fuehrer Bunker, Selected Poems, and Kinder Capers. A recent publication about Snodgrass is , Everything Human: On the Poetry of W.D. Snodgrss, ed Stephen Haven, Ford Brown & Co Publ, 1990, Volume 7, The American Poets Profile Series. William Stafford taught from 1948 until his retirment in 1980 at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon -- except for two years in the early 1950's when he received his Ph D at The University of Iowa. He received a 1962 National Book Award, and the Shelley Memorial Award for Travelling Through The Dark. " I really think he thinks that men are better than they are. " ( F. Keith Wahle quoting Donald Justice, Seems Like Old Times) Stafford continues to direct poetry workshops throughout the United States. George Starbuck, succeeded Paul Engle in 1967 as the third director of the UI Writers' Workshop. In early 1950's Starbuck, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton were students of Robert Lowell's. Starbuck received a BA from U of Chicago in 1957, studied at Harvard, taught at SUNY/Buffalo, and was lecturer at Boston Center for Adult Education. In 1960 he received the Yale Younger Poets Award for "Bone Thoughts" and in 1961 he was awarded the Prix de Rome. In 1982 he received the James A Michener Series Abroad Award from the Academy of American Poets, and in that same year his book, The Argot Merchant of Disaster: Poems New and Selected, received the Nation's Lenore Marshall Prize. Other publications are "White Paper" (1966), and "Elegy in A Country Churchyard" (1975). When asked if he would install any specific innovations as Director of UI Writers' Workshop Starbuck replied," ... every new writer is an innovation." ( Dennis Ishibashi, Daily Iowan, 6-2-67) Wallace Stegner, one of the first give students to receive a creative MFA from UI in 1932. His book, Beyond the Hundredth Meridan: John Wesley Powell and The Opening of the West, was chosen for inclusion in the White House Library. A proponent of "regionalism" he wrote " The Trail of the Hawkeye, Literature Where the Tall Corn Grows," (Saturday Review of Literature, 7-30-38,4 ). His most recent publication is Collected Stories of Wallace Stegner. Three of his full length works evolved from stories in this collection -- Recapitulation, The Big Rock Candy Mountain and Wold History. (Anne Tyler, NY Times Book Review, 3-18-1990) 17