Bur Oak Blog

Celebrating the nature of Iowa and the Midwest with words and images

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

After the frosty days of fall, note the warm reddish hues in stands of big and little bluestem on Iowa's prairie remnants.

The Iowa Nature Calendar

Bur Oak Blog: Iowa City, Iowa, United States; Established in 1969, the University of Iowa Press is a well-regarded academic publisher serving scholars, students, and readers throughout the world with works of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. As the only university press in the state, Iowa is also dedicated to preserving the literature, history, culture, wildlife, and natural areas of the Midwest. For scholars and students, we publish reference and course books in the areas of archaeology, American studies, American history, literary studies, theatre studies, and the craft of writing. For general readers, we publish the winners of the Iowa Short Fiction Award and the Iowa Poetry Prize, poetry anthologies, books on the archaeology and natural history of the Midwest, cookbooks, letters and diaries, biographies, memoirs, regional history, and collections of historic and contemporary photographs. The Press is a member of the AAUP and Green Press Initiative.

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