
Review by Amish Trivedi In my own work, I am endlessly wrapped up in the university, that nineteenth-century institution which was envisioned as a way…
This little poem is about the small, lonely side of heartbreak – that feeling of being left out, or left behind, without anyone really noticing.…

Congratulations to Ben Ahlrichs, whose poem “Abderus on Heracles” has been been selected as the winner of the The Iowa Review‘s David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative…

By Emily Brown Cassidy McFadzean was born in Regina and earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of Hacker Packer (McClelland &…

By Jing Jian David Mura is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He has written the novel Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire and…

By Peter Myers Jessica Laser was raised in Chicago. She is the author of Sergei Kuzmich from All Sides (Letter Machine Editions, 2019) and the chapbooks Assumed Knowledge and…

By Cassandra Jensen Writer and filmmaker David Shields has authored twenty-two books, including the groundbreaking Reality Hunger: A Manifesto (Vintage Books, 2010)and the award-winning Black…

By Victor Resendiz Daisy Hernández is the author of The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of…

Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate student and poetry co-editor Nicole Migneault answers a few questions about editing and poetry. In your view, what’s the most important…

Nate Kouri Dennis Cooper’s hallucinatory blankness seems immune to context. When you read the best of his work, it clears your mind of everything else…