Fourteen poets who lived and interacted in Iowa City, Iowa in the 1970s outside the purview of the University of Iowa's famous but inbred Writers Workshop. We came from, among other places, New York City, Newton, Iowa, Hungary, Chicago, San Francisco, Saint Louis, Finland, and even Iowa City! Photos and biographical notes of the poets.

The Actualist anthology

Literature & Fiction

Anselm Hollo

Poetry

Spirit That Moves Us Press

Inspired by the natural-voice aesthetics of the Iowa City Actualists (of which he was a seminal writer and editor), the Beats, and the New York Poets, Morty Sklar writes with humor, intimacy and original insight in this thirty-six-year collection of poems addressing everything from heroin addiction to honor, innocent joy to mortal resignation, loneliness to everlasting love.

The Smell of Life: Poems 1969 to 2005

Morty Sklar

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Books by Spirit That Moves Us Press

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The Actualist anthology

The Smell of Life: Poems 1969 to 2005