Emeritus professor reads before Legislature

MOUNT VERNON – Robert Dana has been invited as Iowa’s Poet Laureate to open the legislative session Tuesday morning, Jan. 17, at the State Capitol. He is the first poet ever invited to appear before the Iowa Legislature in Des Moines, as well as the last poet to read in the Senate Chamber in Old Capitol in Iowa City. That reading took place in 1966 after the publication of his book “Some Versions of Silence.“

News release from the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs