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Winners of the 2020 Iowa Review Awards

Emily Ward

The results are in: we are very excited to announce the winners of the 2020 Iowa Review Awards! The work of the winners will be published in our Winter 2020 issue. Thank you to everyone who participated in the contest, and a huge thank you to our contest judges: Stephanie Burt (poetry), Lan Samantha Chang (fiction), and Leslie Jamison (nonfiction). Meet our winners:

POETRY

In Berlin

Phan Nhiên Hạo, translated from the Vietnamese by Hai-Dang Phan

It’s already past midnight
but the sun has never been late.
Waiting at the end of the street
the sun will catch a yellow tram and come
meet us in a café just opening its doors. 

Flamenco Vietnamese Opera

Phan Nhiên Hạo, translated from the Vietnamese by Hai-Dang Phan

Looking at the stone sculpted face I don’t hear a thing
only see a row of perfect teeth
a mixed-media exhibit of nylon and banana leaves. 

A fortune teller recounts all the times he’s faked blindness
foreseeing a century without light.

Notes on Red

Landis Grenville

                                      The orchard was

and the knuckles of a man after boxing, the linen
cast off the bed, a woman holding him in the red

between her legs. Her mouth moving is the measure
of triage. And no one dies of red, though it’s messy.

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