News at Eleven: Current projects include developing an

Iowa Literary Community website, Iowalit.com. It will provide a place for Iowa writers to share their works and offer feedback, as well as a centralized source of writing events in the state.

[Mary] Swander's accomplishments are too many to list in this story, but her website, maryswander.com, recounts writing her history.

A performance piece of her latest work, "The Girls on the Roof," has also been created with the Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre.
The book, itself, begins:

from The Kalona News: Rural Kalona resident Iowa's Poet Laureate

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