The Iowa Review

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[wyatt williams @wyatt_williams]

I have a new essay “On Corn” in the Spring 2025 issue of The Iowa Review

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[shane kowalski @diedisappointed]

have a piece called “be the dog” in the new @IowaReview. 🐶

[Poetry Daily @Poetry_Daily]

Today's Featured Poem:

"The Garden of Eden" by @rachelluna415, from the Spring 2024 Issue of @IowaReview.

Read here:
https://t.co/SCqUBXozZe

[Kimberly Grey @KimmyGrey]

Grateful to have a poem in the latest issue of the @IowaReview. Gratitude to the editors and thankful to be in such terrific company with @KatNuernberger, @CLODellpoet, and so many others! ⭐️

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Welcome, Alicia!

[Alicia Wright @aliciaawwright]

I’m so happy to share that I’m the new Managing Editor of @IowaReview! It feels amazing to join such a storied literary journal and to make my living doing this work that I love so much.

[Stephanie L. Harper 🌻 #BLM 🏳️‍🌈 #AuDHD @stephanielharp1]

@IowaReview @rachelluna @AnnePBeatty @PDonnellyPoet @FoustRebecca @KimmyGrey @hokstwit @chelseyhotel @JuliaEve @MattMonizPoet @KatNuernberger @CLODellpoet @MogProf @jockeycornsilk @czoffrun Lyra begrudgingly complied...
Grazie, @RobertOkaji !

[Julia Meinwald @JuliaEve]

Reclining fox is as enamored with this issue as I am!

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Hugo, the reclining purple dog on our new cover, would like to request that all our contributors to this issue share photos of their author copies posed next to their own reclining animals. It's very important to Hugo (and Coven). Thank you.

🎨: Rebecca Clouse

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Congratulations to Kate DeLay, whose poem "For Acie," featured in TIR 53/2, has won a Pushcart Prize!

You can read the poem in print in issue 53/2:
https://t.co/fM4U8vJzb0

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Today we're celebrating contributor Katherine Damm, whose short story "The Happiest Day of Your Life" was selected for Best American Stories 2024.

You can read the story online here:
https://t.co/0GCt3cfSJl

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@amylmargolis 💖!!!

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Big shout out to TIR contributor and friend @amylmargolis, whose essay "1978" will be featured in Best American Essays 2024!

You can read the exceptional essay here:

https://t.co/B29QzkwZrL

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You can pick up a copy of The Iowa Review’s Spring 2012 issue (or any issue) through the link in our bio!

Cover art by Sandra Dyas

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Editor, Lynne Nugent, shares appreciation for “1917” by Sarah Rose Nordgren in the Spring 2012 issue:

“My older son was born in 2010, so I must have encountered this poem soon afterwards, and it clearly resonated with the hormonal new mother bond I was feeling with my baby.”

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You can pick up a copy of the Summer 2022 issue (or any issue) HERE: https://t.co/WdmUDTmwaP

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Intern, Sarah Inouye, shares her appreciation for the opening of Lindsey Drager’s Solastalgia in the Summer 2022 issue of the Iowa Review: “It is the mixing between crisp familiarity and surrealism that makes the first page of Solastalgia so immediately compelling and vivid.

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You can pick up a copy of The Iowa Review’s Winter 2015 issue (or any issue) here: https://t.co/WdmUDTmwaP

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Intern Robbie Hubbert shares Jordan Jacks’ piece “Twenty-seven Exposures” from the Winter 2015 issue: “…the descriptions combined with the empty space on each page where the photos should be create a vivid sense of the specific grief and guilt this narrator experiences…”