Poetry

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  “Victorious” by Alice Notley

  26.26.25

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  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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  The 2024 Winner of the David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize

  01.1.24

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  We’re thrilled to announce that Todd Larkin Tremble has been selected as the 2024 winner of the David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize for his poem…

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• Draw

  16.16.23

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  By April Freely At the end of the privacy of my body techs infuse my autonomic function with intention and vitality.   My veins lie…

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• Fever Season

  16.16.20

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  By Melissa Range Yellow Fever Epidemic, New Orleans, 1853 Work doesn’t stop for blood born to immunity—someone has to load steamboats, boil sugar, stack wood.…

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• For Connie

  16.16.20

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  By Robert Hass Maybe it has been a matter of rhythm. The river flows past. Bare trees in winter, Green shade in the humid summers.…

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• At Squire Point

  16.16.19

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  By Julia Anna Morrison I remember I have a child, vaguely He wears a raincoat, tiny pine trees on his sailor shoes I will have…

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