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Tim McGinnis Award
At the end of each year, The Iowa Review editor and staff choose, from all the work published in our pages over the previous year,…
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Social Poetics by Mark Nowak
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…
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Announcing the Winners and Runners-up of the Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans
The Iowa Review is thrilled to announce the winners and runners-up of our seventh Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans, judged by Dewaine Farria. The work of…
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“Victorious” by Alice Notley
IN MEMORIAM The Iowa Review celebrates the life of one of our greatest and most influential poets, Alice Notley, who passed away yesterday in Paris. May she…
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Katherine Gibbel Awarded 2024 Tim McGinnis Prize
Congratulations to Katherine Gibbel, whose “Salubrious Poem” won the Tim McGinnis Award for 2024. The McGinnis Award is given yearly to the piece published in…
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Ben Ahlrichs Wins 2025 David Hamilton Prize for Undergraduate Writing
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…
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Interview with Cassidy McFadzean
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 &…
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Interview with David Mura
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…
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Interview with Jessica Laser
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…
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Interview with David Shields
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…