Since 1970
Poetry
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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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God Didn’t Exist
By Robert Wood Lynn so we had to invent him. The most expensive public art project ever built. Or it was at the time anyway.…
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The 2024 Winner of the David Hamilton Undergraduate Creative Writing Prize
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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Congratulations
By Cindy Juyoung Ok to me when someone who hurt me writes asking how he might make amends. Delighted by the idea that I am…
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Sweet Little Things
By Brent Ameneyro They are talking to their dog, just sweet little things like good boy, who’s a good boy? Footsteps in the morning dark, gentle…
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Saturn Returning to Mami Wata
By Alisha Acquaye Track 1: Offering (Intro) Mymom saw Mami Wata decades before she dreamed of me. She found her at twelve years old. The number…
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How to Sky-Bury Your Father Tongue
By Samyak Shertok One of the rooms is haunted the Resident Poet tells me, handing the key. From my studio, the Gihon is green and barely…
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The Kafka Virus vs (Thursday)
By Terrance Hayes The madness of each ordinary day versus the language of someone raised by history versus someone raised by a virgin. I’m mostly…