Discoveries: New Writing from The Iowa Review is an anthology of stories, essays, and poetry selected from TIR archives for use in the high school or undergraduate language arts classroom.
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Table of Contents
Essays
Eula Biss | Time and Distance Overcome
Elena Bossi | Risotto alla Milanese (translated by Cristina Piatti)
Danielle Cadena Deulen | Aperture
Lance Larsen | A Feeling in Your Head
Amy Leach | Alter Ego | Stairs
Yiyun Li | The Ground Floor
James McKean| D/Altered
Maggie McKnight | Swingin'
Steve McNutt | SUV vs. Bike, SUV Wins
Ryan Van Meter | Discovery
Jerald Walker | Dragon Slayers
Poems
Anne Babson | Ariadne Explains Why She's Mixed Up with a Boy Like Theseus
Jim Barnes | Five Villanelles
Malachi Black | Dandelion
Leslie Chang | Watermelons
Sharon Dolin | Inamorato: A Triolet
Alex Epstein | True Illusion (translated by Becka Mara McKay)
Bob Hicok | Shorn
Justin Hyde | only waitress at the truck-stop who never uses the cash register
Jeanne LeVasseur | Letter to Rilke
Kim Lozano | Letter from a Mental Hospital | Class Reunion
Anthony Madrid | When He Took Me Out with His People | I Wanted to Be an Angel | I Have Passed Too Many Years Among Cool Designing Beings
Fred Muratori | World War III
Kiki Petrosino | Valentine | Valentine
Todd James Pierce | Black on White: A Found Poem
Donald Platt | Nonetheless
Heeduk Ra | The Word for "Yeo" (translated by Won-Chung Kim and Christopher Merrill)
Ruby Rahman | Damages | See, If You Can (translated by Carolyne Wright with Syed Manzoorul Islam and the author)
Jorge Sánchez | Moro or Congrí
Zhu Shuzhen | from Ten Miscellaneous Spring Day Poems (translated by Emily Goedde)
Dave Snyder | Bamboo Poem
Emily Van Kley | Weight Training
Mary Jane White | For My Father and His Mother
John Witte | Y | When You Come to Lethe
Carolyne Wright | This dream the world is having about itself…
Ray A. Young Bear | Contemporary Meskwaki Social Dance Songs
Stories
Jacob M. Appel | Helen of Sparta
Brock Clarke | Knock Knock
Mathilde Walter Clark | The Fish Shop Owner's Wife (translated by John W. Clark and the author)
Amina Gautier | In the Event of Emergency
Mehdi Tavana Okasi | Other Mothers, Other Sons
Susan Perabo | Shelter
