The First Person with Michael Judge

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Making the World a Better Place, One Writer at a Time
In the wake of the ill-advised canceling of federal funds for Iowa's world-renowned International Writing Program, TFP revisits our 2022 conversation…
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The Shape of Stone
A poem for America
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Justice in a Time of War
Nearly two years after she was killed by a Russian missile strike, Victoria Amelina's unflinching 320-page book of nonfiction, "Looking at Women Looking…
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Deborah J. Stein: Letters From Ruthie
As the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau approaches, TFP proudly revisits Deborah J. Stein's lyrical essay for her mother, Ruth Stein, who…
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February 2025

The Invalid
A poem for America
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Thomas B. Wilner: Trump Sells Out Our Allies
And in doing so makes the world a far more dangerous place.
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Sternocera Aequisignata
A poem for America
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Doctor, My Eyes
A conversation with Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize winning Iowa journalist who has done all that he could to see the evil and the good.
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Misunderstandings
A poem for Valentine's Day
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Trump, Putin and the midnight of the 21st century
The betrayal of Ukraine will haunt us
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Only One
A poem for America
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Suppose Horses
A poem for America
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